Susanna Hofer

... there wouldn’t be anything without light. right?! you’d be nothing. — somehow this immaterial, ethereal something that here is not illuminating nor reflected — is shining through. revealing. the glass conducts. maybe admits. but it doesn’t enforce.

simple as that. and it's pleasing too. on the other hand; have you heard about judith b’s comment from last month? that’s what she had to say

“if we take seriously the possibility that the church, as a site of iterative citation, has historically produced gender not as an ontological given but as a normative demand enacted through — and I want to stress this — architecturally specific regimes of light, then the question of what ‘shines through’ the glass is not merely optical but is, in the most profound sense, a question of which bodies are rendered legible, which are rendered sacred, and which are, to use a term I approach with considerable caution, simply not admitted”

haha, but who cares, right? light is dogmatic.