My New Favorite Place

In the National Gallery of Art building, in the concourse between the East and West buildings, there is a new light installation that I have fallen in love with. This project was designed by Leo Villareal and has 40,000 LED nodes. The lights "move" in random patterns. The randomness is the best part. Sometimes it's really dark with a few lights twinkling and you feel like you're watching a night sky out in the country; other times all the lights are on at full capacity and you're walking through a tunnel of bright light like in a futuristic sci-fi movie; other times the lights create a wave illusion that sweeps over you. I stayed there for the longest time just watching all the different light patterns. It was so beautiful.