Noonday Dawn: Photograph by Will Tenney

Noonday Dawn

Walking along College Avenue in Berkeley, California, near where I once lived, I looked up at the windows over the doorway of a shop across the street. Reflected in the century-old glass with all its ripples and slumps was what appeared to be a desert landscape. To me it looked very much like a mid-century surrealist dream vision, complete with a bi-chronic mystery of dawn in the middle of the day, perhaps a vision of a dual-sun solar system.