TRUTH & DARKNESS
I am now quite convinced that if I hadn't been able to filter the darkness of the Gap through the images I make that it may have completely overwhelmed me. I am not suggesting for a moment that I would have jumped into its gaping mouth as the two artists I knew did. I am much too much of a coward for that. It also doesn't mean that I have survived it unscathed or escaped it entirely.
In most ordinary lives darkness is feared, denied, rejected - and rightly so. It is given no place or reason to be yet continues to pop up everywhere, unwanted, misunderstood. My life, this life, has been one long initiation through darkness. For what purpose? Truth just can't be known, can't even be approached, without knowing the darkness - it's as simple as that. If you want to know the light of truth, you must also know its darkness. Not wanting to know the truth, being happily ignorant, is no protection either.
