Buildings and gardens, and other architectural features in the realm of the
Fair Folk can be looked at as normal material structures. They also can be
seen as currents of light in a realm of light. A building could be seen as
made of white fire - as a structure composed of walls and floors within the bonfire of
light. The more spiritual view of the world of the Fair Folk is of complex
currents of energy within a great and glowing ball of light.
The energies are shaped by thought. There is no need for architectural
engineers. What is required is for artists to be skilled in the art of
manipulating light. The Fair Folk's artists know intuitively which aspects
will balance and harmonize, and which ones will cause imbalance and throw
off the harmony of a building, or a garden, or a sculpture. These are not
calculated mathematically, but by direct intuitive perception of the waves
of which the light is composed. It might be equivalent to perceiving
structures such as people or buildings in the material world as composed of
atomic structures, or smaller patterns of energy, and knowing how to best
fit together the small shapes to form attractive larger structures.
Gardeners and architects, who are also sometimes mages, know the principles
of the flowing river of light, and can shape them to their ends. A
building such as a castle, runs with light through its walls and floors but
the light is only directly visible in the fireplaces.
To become an artists among the fair folk, it is necessary for the
individual to learn a new medium of creativity. The artist needs to learn
to work with the medium of light.
