Alexanderplatz - September light

The September light has the color of cream colored ice cream.

This particular alchemy is due to the fact that the sun, in some ways still strong, manages to penetrate the gray blanket of the first rain clouds with its warm rays.

It is the light I prefer, perhaps because being born in this transitory month, I tend to observe and make my own all the physical and optical variations recorded in the surrounding environment, elements in which I myself can recognize myself.

One day in September while I was walking around Alexanderplatz (Berlin), I stopped not far from the Urania world time clock which measures all the hours of the different places on the planet: I synchronized on an hour neutral and I took that light and the carefree stroll of the people, as if I were in Turin, as if I were anywhere else.

The Earth is beautiful even in front of a gray station: don't worry if I get excited for so little, a yellow train full of sun and hopes is more than enough to break through its neutral rigor, giving the walls and the architecture the color of a cream colored ice cream.

Luca Periotto

NP Ottobre 2020