More to the point of this post: I wholeheartedly agree with your statement (that it is the objects revealing the presence of light). In strict scientific terms, it is always dark in the interstellar space, as there is nothing to bounce the light towards you (and your eyes). Sure, you will see the stars, but your immediate proximity will be completely dark. I am honestly not too keen to experience this sensation, as the absence of nearby sources of light (be they particles of dust or, literally, anything) must be the most depressing thing one can experience. Truly an experience devoid of any content or meaning…

Might I add a personal touch to your theory: objects are as able to reveal the presence of light, as they are able to withhold the presence of colour. As light bounces of the surface of an object, it absorbs portions of the light’s spectrum, presenting us with only what escapes the collision between the light ray and the object. The ray of light is like a snake shedding its skin as crawls from here to there… Then, I ask, is an object’s true colour what we see (what escapes it), or quite the opposite (what it absorbs)?

Thank you for challenging what we believe to be banal about the way we perceive the world around us.