Figure 1 – Prospect Park Sunset #2, Brooklyn, NY. (c) DE Wolf 2019.

I wanted to share today what was actually the first in a series of images that I took last week of the sunset over the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. I emphasize the order because sunsets evolve and change very quickly; so this was truly the first. I think that the key to this image is the ambiguity created by the bright point of light across the lake from the photographer. What is it? In physical reality it is, of course, just a light, but metaphysically I think that it is something more. It has meaning. It represents a beckoning point, a place to be wondered about and, if you’re worthy, to be achieved. It is perhaps infinitely far away, perhaps not to actually be achieved but to be strived for. It represents the center.