Shadows are an essential graphic element. Shapeable, they form a fundamental juxtaposition with light which we use to grasp and depict the world around us.
The direction and progression of a shadow resolutely follow the Earth’s revolutions. A shadow is a bodiless extension of a body, a delimitated reflection and a continuous and occasionally bottomless spot.
Striving for emancipation, shadows stretch out, go on, extending themselves at day’s end towards the edge of the plane, escaping to the west. And they briefly vanish beyond an invisible line. When a shadow falls, it either sprawls uninterruptedly over opaque, continuous planes or it breaks in the
topographical variation of space and throughout the cycles of time. It is there that a shadow brings about new members, lines, shapes, metamorphosing, disappearing an It is there that a shadow brings about
new members, lines, shapes, metamorphosing, disappearing and reappearing, reinventing itself interruptedly, organically. In the Euclidian space, a shadow structures what is invisible.
A shadow is both a spot open to literal interpretation and a poetic riddle. A shadow is a ghost which haunts, depicts, and animates the plain and the screen – eastern and western; in a closed curtain play, a shadow insinuates itself and narrates Plato’s allegory of the cave.
