# AXIS DECK: light (light and weather). 17 cards, LGT01-LGT17. All original writing.
# deck-description: Light and weather. The sky and the hour, and what they do to surfaces and faces.

## LGT01 | Rain-Washed Morning
short: After Rain
essence: rain-washed morning light
text: Let the day follow rain: wet surfaces, doubled lights, low sun cutting under cloud, the air rinsed and every edge sharper than it had any right to be.
brightness: mixed

## LGT02 | Hard Noon Through Shade
short: Slatted Noon
essence: hard white noon softened to bars and blades
text: Let noon be hard, white and total, softened only by slatted shade, deep thresholds and cool interiors where light arrives as bars and blades.
climate: hot, arid, temperate
brightness: bright

## LGT03 | Blue Hour With Lit Windows
short: Blue Hour
essence: the blue hour with every window lit
text: Hold the blue hour: the sky still luminous, every window lit amber, the world suspended between the day's tasks and the night's invitations.
brightness: mixed

## LGT04 | Harbour Fog
short: In Fog
essence: fog that gives every lamp a halo
text: Wrap the place in fog: lamps wear halos, sound arrives before shapes, edges dissolve into pearl and each person emerges into view one step at a time.
climate: cold, temperate, humid
brightness: dim

## LGT05 | Snow-Light Afternoon
short: Snow-Light
essence: low gold sun and shadowless snow-light
text: Let snow set the light: a low gold sun by mid-afternoon, a blue, shadowless brightness off the ground, and every interior glowing like a lantern against it.
climate: cold
brightness: bright

## LGT06 | Monsoon Afternoon
short: Before the Downpour
essence: the green-gold hush before a downpour
text: Let the afternoon turn dark and heavy before a downpour: a hush, a colour shift to green-gold, wind in the leaves, then rain loud as applause on roofs and leaves.
climate: hot, humid
brightness: dim

## LGT07 | Dust-Gold Late Sun
short: Dust Gold
essence: late sun thick with dust and gold
text: Let late sun cross the place thick with dust and gold, long shadows and warm walls, the day's heat giving up its last light slowly.
climate: hot, arid, temperate
brightness: mixed

## LGT08 | Overcast, Flat and Flattering
short: Soft Grey
essence: one soft grey sky and honest faces
text: Let the sky be one soft grey lid: no hard shadows, faces evenly lit, colours deepening, and every surface equally honest about itself.
brightness: mixed

## LGT09 | Firelight and Candle Night
short: By Firelight
essence: night made of flame
text: Let night belong to flame: hearth glow, candle and oil-lamp light, a small world of warm islands in a dark that listens.
brightness: dim

## LGT10 | Neon on a Wet Street
short: Neon Rain
essence: wet streets and coloured signs
text: Let night be made of wet streets and coloured signs: neon pooling in puddles, windows steamed, reflections doing half the architecture.
brightness: dim
excludes: MAT15

## LGT11 | Twilight That Will Not End
short: Long Twilight
essence: a midsummer evening that will not end
text: Let evening stretch toward midnight without darkness: a pale gold-blue sky, long low shadows, birdsong at the wrong hour and a feeling that time has lent you more.
climate: cold, temperate
brightness: bright

## LGT12 | Storm Approaching
short: Storm Light
essence: the yellow-green minutes before a storm
text: Hold the minutes before a storm: a yellow-green sky, trees showing the pale undersides of their leaves, a pressure on the skin, doors banging, everyone moving a little faster.
setting: either
brightness: dim

## LGT13 | Dawn Mist on Cold Water
short: Dawn Mist
essence: dawn mist lifting from cold water
text: Let the day begin over cold water: mist lifting in veils, pale gold on still surfaces, and sound carrying far in the hush.
climate: cold, temperate
assumes: water
brightness: mixed

## LGT14 | Fluorescent Hum and One Warm Lamp
short: One Warm Lamp
essence: cool tube-light with one warm lamp doing disproportionate work
text: Let the room be lit by cool institutional tubes, with one warm lamp somewhere in it doing disproportionate work: hum, flicker and a golden island where people want to be.
setting: indoor
brightness: mixed
excludes: MAT07, MAT08

## LGT15 | Moonlit, Clear and Cold
short: Moonlit Cold
essence: a clear cold moon and breath you can see
text: Let a clear moon do the lighting: blue-silver edges, black shadows with soft rims, breath visible, the stars more numerous than seems reasonable.
climate: cold, arid
setting: outdoor
brightness: dim

## LGT16 | Heat-Shimmer Afternoon
short: Heat Shimmer
essence: an afternoon shimmering with heat
text: Let the afternoon shimmer: heat lifting off every surface, distances trembling, interiors shuttered into amber half-light, and everyone moving slowly on purpose.
climate: hot, arid
brightness: bright

## LGT17 | Sunset Through Old Glass
short: Old Glass
essence: sunset through old, uneven glass
text: Let the sun set through old, uneven glass: wavering reflections, honeyed rectangles creeping across floors, and the room slowly turned into a lantern.
setting: indoor
brightness: mixed
