"I've long been fascinated by sunsets; no two are alike. Where I live currently (early-2026 as of this writing), we have "The Golden Hour" every evening - named for the color of the sun's waning light as it travels through more of the Earth's atmosphere, making for longer, warmer wavelengths, or a "golden" atmospheric glow that on the best days can be all encompassing. "I'm also fascinated by how light travels relative to perceived time, and as such, the bent light of a sunset we observe is 8-minutes removed from the true sun's positioning - emphasizing this point, we're quite literally seeing the past inside the present with every day's new sunset, not unlike every star in the night sky thereafter, shown as distant-travelled light from things long past. Every sunset, like every star in the night sky, is a eulogy of distant daylight past and gone, never to be repeated the same again, and only observable by us in that moment. "This is a composition saying farewell to the day's light, as it travels further into the past for other distant observers, and we continue onward with our perception of time towards our next bit of light in our present moment. Light travels as waves, and the waves of the ocean at sunset in Jake Edwards' field recording spoke deeply to me due to my fascination with the conceptual physics around light, our perception of it, and it's wave-space in the electromagnetic spectrum. All of this observation is bolstered by both the voices of people and the symphony of cicadas present to observe this once-in-a-lifetime, wholly unique fading light on the day Jake was present to document it."Koh Mook beach, Thailand reimagined by Akira Film Script.

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