image taken from: http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/auca150/john_biggers.html
Most of the pieces I've looked at have one source light or combine all their lights to focus on one object. John Bigger's House of the Turtle has several different lights that lead into each other but aren't connected. The four sources of light, the glowing orbs around the two center top figures, the towers of light, the highlight on the person behind the waterfall, and the flame in the left foreground, all illuminate the page but don't all focus on the same spot. Biggers has several different types of light that work together without any competition. The glow of the waterfall isn't diminished by the light from the towers as it rests in their light's edges, and the bright illumination in the top of the page doesn't force the bottom of the page to lose its darker atmosphere. Biggers' piece seems to prove that if the space is available and an artist designs their lighting with extreme care they can use all sorts of different lighting sources and tones in a piece without compromising any of their lighting choices.
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