The portal between the star and the moon.
Light is visible in its contrast to the dark. Life always returns after collapse, in time, moving towards survival and eventually thriving.
Sculpture: Star Bowl
Ashely Dodd
Ebb and flow are as intrinsic to life as night and day. One will always pendulate into the other. As our light grows, so does our capacity for darkness, and the boundaries between them blur: we are never entirely in the light, nor the dark.
Photographs
Brian Aikens (photographer)
Erica Otto (concept, costume, & model)
Ashley Dodd (model)
The images of the star depict an ancient story of the balance between light and dark. Of innocence and corruption, of hope for something brighter. The darkness will always exist: the power of light is not in vanquishing it, but in the relationship between the two. The depth of shadow only highlights the brightness of the light.
