Shadows
Investigating concepts dealing with emptiness, space and the void may lead to dark and shrouded places. Those shadowed recesses that contain doubt, anguish, loss and the fluidity of chaos. Colour itself is suggestive. Black may create a feeling of space, void or chasm in an artwork. It can be solemn and mysterious, with both positive and negative associations. It is failing light. It is night and deep space. Odilon Redon said that, ‘Black should be respected. Nothing prostitutes it. It does not please the eye and does not awaken sensuality. It is the agent of the spirit much more than the splendid colour of the palette or the prism.’
Citation from - To myself: Notes on life, Art and Artists, trans. Mira Jacob & Jeanne I. Wasserman (NY: George Braziller, 1986), 103.
