Thursday Arch Series

One's perception of the Arch's size and intensity works like light. Remember what you were taught when you learned to use flash: the brightness declines with the square of the of the distance from the strobe to the object.

It's like that with the Arch. If you can see it from some distance away it looks like a little ornament on the horizon. If you see it from a plane landing at STL it seems to be a tiny toy. But when you get right under it the monument surpasses human scale. It's awesome, in the old-fashioned sense of the word.