Hammons's only video work, "Phat Free," is a powerfully simple vignette in which a disorientingly noisy darkness lifts to reveal a man kicking a metal bucket down the street, evoking the danger of walking while black in America.
But as you walk the edge of these mostly frozen lakes and the darkness lifts, you'll catch Mt. Rundle in the middle of an epic skyline view.
For it's these early morning excursions that yield incredible moments like watching the dawn almsgiving to a silent procession of burgundy-robe clad monks, or catching what has to be one of the world's best sunrises in Bagan, where the darkness lifts to reveal a landscape of delicate silhouettes and a sky full of hot air balloons.
I hope the darkness lifts.
Rain is tapping on bedroom skylights as darkness lifts.
"I sense a certain sun rising, a certain light shining and a certain darkness lifting," said Pelo, a Buhari supporter, as he began his journey home after the night's revelry in Lagos, the country's largest city.
In these precious last days with the hummingbirds, I sit quietly on the ledge of the morning, watching the sodden darkness lift like a stage curtain, and the tiny players arrive one by one, do their dance, engage in a little swordplay, and leave in fast arcing backdives.
For the exhibit's press release, Crewdson writes, "It was deep in the forests of Becket, Massachusetts that I finally felt darkness lift, experienced a reconnection with my artistic process, and moved into a period of renewal and intense creative productivity".
"The word Congo used to have very dark connotations but today some of that darkness has lifted.
