Recently, I had to drive my family into Pasadena for a family dinner, and naturally I was focussing on the road, but once I got into old town, I began to notice how different the light felt from the freeway. The rain was pretty heavy, and the pools of water on the road reflected the light from the street lights and traffic lights so beautifully. I began to think of the medium at which the light was being portrayed. Haze and fog are common in theater, and the effects of the lights shining off of them can be magical. Water is more uncommon, but it's not an impossible medium. Metamorphoses is a play heavily centralised around water, and many Cirque du Soleil performances implement water as a medium. The effects on the light can be breathtaking and I believe add a greater sense of reality onto the stage if implemented correctly.
I did not take that picture, because I was driving and that would be dangerous. The original site for this picture is here:
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