Nocturnal

"The summer demands and takes away too much
But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives
more than it takes"

John Ashberry

I've always been attracted to night time. It has always been one of my favorite times of day. Lately, I've been working on more nocturnal pieces, such as this one. One of the reasons I enjoy doing them so much is because I am mesmerized by the interaction between light and dark. As I let them feed of each other throughout the painting I realize how these two opposing forces become dependent of each other, gaining strength from each other's intensity. In the end, I realized: you can't have light without the shadows