Then he makes shadowy black-and-white photographs in which watery light streams in through the windows or radiates from real burning candles.
Theories abound on why the blue lights might deter crime: perhaps because their bright and attention-grabbing incandescence makes shadowy niches feel more open and exposed — or, quite the opposite, that they have a mysterious calming effect.
Similarly, Tracy Heneberger uses hardware-store materials like hinges to concoct adorably original, elegantly constructed sculptures, and the Chicago-based, self-taught artist known only as Mr. Imagination makes shadowy, masklike portraits using paintbrushes and found materials.
The 2013 Snowden revelations shone a light on how Western governments, including the UK, had been making shadowy landgrabs of data behind the scenes.
Kabir, a historically shadowy figure, is made more shadowy still by the hagiographies and unreliable narratives that surround his life.
That Nyx is a nebulous figure in Greek mythology is exactly what made this shadowy goddess an intriguing source of inspiration for Mr. Salonen.
Dressed in black, including back masks, Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer made themselves shadowy figures — though sometimes dancing ones — in an elaborately synthetic production that flaunted technology but conjured emotion.
We glimpsed great acts of obscenity, made out shadowy figures who in life had been alone and who at their terrible death were subjected to sexual torture and drawn-out degradations: turned into living sex aids for Frederick and Rosemary West.
There's just one problem: these men are not Michael, who makes only shadowy and inconclusive appearances in the book.
"There's a kind of Nyman-ness there but the treatment and processing makes it shadowy, takes me somewhere else".
All this provides an atmospheric hinterland of personal detail that might make the shadowy Shakespeare's biographer green at the gills.
