Water and Stone: Contemporary Chinese Art and the

In this essay I examine the features of night, in particular, urban night. I t highlight the epistemological divide between day and night, light and darkr Even as light-based experiencing, acting, and thinking, and their cultural t colonize urban night, nocturnal elements relate dialectically to our daytime reasoning. I conclude with the question of whether a kind of half-tone thin contained in a trialectic of light, twilight, and darkness would be capable ol appreciating the peculiar qualities of night. The reveries of the weak light guide into the innermost recesses of t familiar. It looks as if there are dark corners where nothing but a flu light is suffered....A dreamer of the lamp knows by instinct that the of the weak light are night lights. Their glow becomes invisible, whe thinking is at work, when consciousness is bright. But as soon as thi has a rest the images watch.