brian castriota
dusk/dawn
chromagenic prints, 6" x 7"
2007
this series is an exploration of light in both the half-hour before sunrise and the half-hour after sunset. comprising half of "magic hour," these are the only two moments in which the sun is still illuminating the world but doesn't cast any direct light on it. rather, the sun's light is reflected off the atmosphere onto a thin and quickly-shifting sliver of the earth below. during the half-hour before sunrise and half-hour after sunset the ephemeral nature of the ambient daylight is evident. during these two brief moments the day is either quickly fading out of the darkness of the previous night, or back into the blackness of the next. as the gray area between the black and white, night and day, these images capture the fleeting moments of the inbetween, referencing our own temporality. with urban exteriors as the subjects of the images, punctuated by artificial light, this relationship extends into our own human physicalities.
