I started making a photographic collection of shadows. Most of them are self portraits. Of the ones you see here three were taken in Nice, France and two were taken in Tokyo, Japan. Shadows are fascinating because they look the same all over the globe. In Europe, as with other places on the planet, change brought about by globalization and economic strife has forced the continent to take a look at itself and it’s relevance in the future of the world. I am expressing this idea with my poem and my pictures.

Shadows

Place on the ground where we block the sun

There’s light but also simulation of night

Traveling night that we carry with us

Even when there’s little light

We still have it camouflaged

Dark stalker always waiting to show

Even shadows are what you make of them

Don’t agree then get out of the shade

notice how different the rays

Some days when people shuffle

Some become only shadows

Or their shadows become only shadows

Both trying to find their way to completion

To becoming more

than Plato’s allegorical

representations of the world