SHADOW CELLS
SHADOW CELLS
2023 - ONGOING
The Shadow Cells are contained, intricate and layered images which live quietly both in the digital world, and on paper. Color is restrained and confined to black, grey and white, with smidgeons of blue, red or a glint of other colors.
The Shadow Cells fall within the wider collection of still and moving shadow images. One could expect to see -- within the same space -- the Moving Shadows on a screen flat on the floor; still shadow images, both singles and doubles on paper on the wall; and the much smaller Shadow Cells shown here, which are viewed lined up on a long shelf on the wall, and are also viewed on a digital screen or two.
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In his essay “In Praise of Shadows” written in 1933, Jun Ichiro Tanizaki says of the sensibilities of those living in Japan, as distinct from western sensibilities: “we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the pattern of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates”.
There is the possibility within the light and layers and depth of the Shadow Cells to find something of the esthetic Tanizaki describes, which is reflected beyond the edge of the images: maybe into dim light holding other shapes and other shadows, maybe further away and dimmer still, maybe to enmesh, brighten, or darken, as imagination allows.
