The Don L. Love Memorial Library at UNL | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang
The Don L. Love Memorial Library at UNL | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang

Waking up around 5 a.m. on Black Friday to visit major retailers with my handheld field-recording devices has developed into an annual ritualistic comportment over the past few years. The massive sonic scenery of the crowd swarming toward doorbusters was extraordinary, and to me, this was the sound symbolizing the love, adoration, and the holiday spirit of the beautiful everyday-people.

I said goodbyes to the supersized stores and the seasonal excitements a little bit after the daybreak, driving through undisturbed streets after streets while Arthur Grumiaux’s Bach violin partitas slowly growing a warm musical cocoon inside the car. This Black Friday morning was particularly cute and peaceful, I thought, very much like sleepwalking on the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean with my favorite dreams. I hummed along with Grumiaux, softly, and was suddenly overrun by flocks of pristineness and serenity.

A quick and impromptu stop in front of the Don L. Love Memorial Library located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s city campus was prolonged into a short walk with my camera in the mildly chilled 13th & ‘R’ Streets area. I strolled around, quietly, hoping to steal few gorgeous shots before the muse of Black Friday being disturbed from her long and soundless beauty sleep.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang
University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang
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