First Light Pt. I is a highly personal series - an attempt of the artist to recapture the mood and experience of a sequence of lucid dreams he had at a very young age. Visually the dreams involved a sublime, otherworldly light in an semi-abstracted landscape, with pathways, decayed stairs, glistening brook, trees, nondescript ruins, and an overall peripheral blur. The artist describes these visions as feeling pre-existential, like landscapes from between lives. A sequel series First Light Pt. II, made later on, is also present on this website.

Throughout his career he has recognized similar visions by various writers and artists, such as Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco Goya, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, William Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, Gustave Doré, Arnold Böcklin, Odilon Redon, Andrei Tarkovsky and Olafur Eliasson. Bebardo believes that all these great writers and artists have evoked and exchanged their archetypal and transcendent visions of and from a collective human unconscious.