Emerging into the shadow

Starting the year with shadows. I visited the exhibition Dark Matters: Shadow, Technology, Art at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester yesterday. A strangely unmoving show (especially as I was really Continue reading →

Shape of a shadow

Shadows are once again in my thoughts. Once you start looking out for them you begin to see just how many different types there are. Also, that they have little Continue reading →

Looking into my own shadow

Josepth Amato in his book Dust makes the point that in the West our obsession with the very small over the past century – germs, cells, genes and then on into Continue reading →

Me and my shadow

“For the moment let’s venture simply this: the shadow, this elegant enigma, is always with us… [it] is an inescapable consequence of our physicality. …Our clearest thoughts are those that Continue reading →