One: Cinema

I was leaving the movie theater when I noticed it. At first I thought I was disoriented by the change of light. The sudden reintroduction to sunlight bleaching the world to fuzzed watercolor whites. The local Cineplex is older. It's insides don't remind me of a mall food court with overbright fluorescents and corporate neon graphitti. It's a building designed to absorb illumination. Architecture of black hole angles and shadow space The lobby is dimmed and draped, flanked with stairways leading to balcony level. I can remember when the balconies were open. It was like voyeurism on top of voyeurism, watching the movie and then watching the audience below watch the movie.