Darkness Precedes Light

It is the darkness that precedes light and somehow includes it; it is the darkness of elementary mystery, the original condition in which light occurs. We are asked to accept the dark as the only condition or way in which we can see the light. And we are asked, then, to see how joyous, subtle, strong, intimate, familiar, and lovely the things of light are. The darkness of these pictures is an imagined darkness; and this was a courageous imagining, for the darkness is made absolute in order to make visible the smallest lights, the least shinings and reflections. Sometimes the lights require hard looking to be seen. Wendell Berry, The Unforeseen Wilderness

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Paxton Round Barn, 2018