Evanescence and the Beautiful Foolishness of Things: An artistic way to fight seasonal depression

Arts | Columns Evanescence and the Beautiful Foolishness of Things: An artistic way to fight seasonal depression Graphic edited by Israel Hernandez. I don’t understand fallback time. Never have, never will. Though I greatly appreciate the single extra hour of sleep during midterm season and walking out to pitch black after my 6 p.m. class with my flash on, I doubt the ‘pros’ outweigh the disruption of natural circadian rhythms and the seasonal depression that sticks for the remainder of the gloomy, harsh New England winter. This is usually when therapists introduce light therapy, in which a blasting beam is flashed in your face to incinerate those winter blues. Luckily, there’s a gentler and more thoughtful way to find light. It exists in the Peabody Essex Museum’s ongoing exhibition titled “Isamu Noguchi: ‘I am not a designer,’” and in the gentle glow of Isamu Noguchi’s Akari light sculptures.

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