IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS

"In making ourselves a place to live, we first spread a parasol to throw shadow on the earth, and in the pale light of the shadow, we put together a house."

"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates."
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, from In Praise of Shadows

Umbra = latin for Shade / Shadow.  also a phantom or shadowy apparition.
82 = The number of white boxes we will build.

A project that explores the modulation of light, shadow, and pattern.  A mosaic or tapestry of pattern and shadow.  A light modulator.  A space that captures the ephemeral characteristics of daylight.