Rangeen turned off the lamp and looked at the city through the glass. The windows were reflected like painted squares, a mosaic of other people’s light. He felt both connected and solitary, as any painter who has finished a sentence does. He had made an installation not of screens but of color and memory—systematic in its making, but alive in its improvisation. The day had been captured, not tethered; an episode in his life rendered in hue, stroke, and deliberate silence.
