The Marker Finished

I added three of the custom textures to the marker model to add a greater sense of depth and detail. The trio were:

The three textures provide the full spectrum from light to dark, and I positioned them in a way that felt natural to me, that is, with the darkest at the lowest point, and the lightest at the highest.

Here, we see the darkest texture facing off against the medium texture, whilst the lightest graces the top of the four peaks:

This establishes a sort of hierarchy of texture and lightness that I found both natural and satisfying. Thus, these simple textures, placed in a simple way, belie a more complicated system of thought that underwrites their arrangement. 

Uncluttered and simply formed, the marker effectively defines the character of the space, as it rises above the almost oppressively flat Cumberland plain. In short, its simple form enables it to perform a complicated act of atmospherics. 

By night the marker transforms its surroundings, casting a pillar of light into the darkened sky. Such a beam is arguably the simplest and most natural form of all, but here it performs a feat of transfiguration magical in its complexity.

N.B. I did had a rather nice night shot of the marker, viewed from the overpass with the floodlit park in the background (very cinematic), but between three hard-discs and two computers it got lost. Hence the unremarkable final Lumion capture.