Noire
What is black? What is darkness? Is darkness an absence of light? Is black absence of color? Is darkness a state of mind or a situation of the material world? Did everything, all time and space, start with blackness, flawless darkness? Are black and darkness the same? Are they simply variations on mindset? Are they closely related? Are they entirely different from one another? Is darkness a force? Can I leverage it in myself for good? Is darkness a different time and place, a universe we can step into and back out of at will? Or both? Does the absence of light allow for a localized change in the universe we call darkness, black, noire? Why does light always destroy the darkness, yet darkness cannot destroy light? Why do I struggle to destroy the darkness within myself? Do I lack light? How much light must be removed before we officially arrive at darkness? Can I capture my own darkness on film negative somehow and thusly examine it, understand it better, conquer it?
These are my attempts to answer these possibly unanswerable questions in earnest. I can't say I photographed definitive answers, but sometimes I think I got very close.
