Saturday 22 August 2015

Black Absorbs the Light



To be able to project images you need a light background. To have images of possibility and potential you need a background that illuminates life. Our lives, the ones that are situated in our heads, are played out in loops of varying intensity, running through to futures uncertain, to hopes and fears and to all the beginnings and endings that may happen and, also, may not happen. But black absorbs the light. No images can be seen on a black background. Only darkness, ever widening, which makes you believe it has always been there and it will never go away. But the light, in the end, only has to be turned on. It’s just that the light-switch can be hard to find in the dark.

Christian Martius (2015)