Sunset, Saturday, 7 November 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

The setting sun throws a golden-yellow block of light against the oaks, the small cedars and vines along the fence, and the house, and in the middle of this bright space, my black shadow. Looking at my shadow I feel I’m real, much more than if I were seeing my reflection, because I displace light. We only displace light because we are its different form. The shadow of what I say as it reaches you, this is evidence of my light, and yours – we meet in the shadows.