Whitewashed buildings, windmills, and winding stairways in Oia, Santorini, glow with warm lights beneath a blue and pink twilight sky above the sea.

When the Village Glows

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2024-03-19

About this piece

Oia’s hillside architecture gathers into a dense arrangement of curved roofs, terraces, and narrow stairways overlooking the sea. Warm illumination traces the whitewashed walls, contrasting with the deep blue clouds and the last pink light along the horizon.

The story

I watched the hillside become a constellation of windows and lamps while a band of pink still held above the sea. From this viewpoint, the stairways seemed to join one terrace to another without ever reaching an end. People lingered along the walls, small figures among the domes and windmills. I framed the village where those two kinds of light met: the cool evening settling over the roofs and the warmth gathering inside them.

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