But you're never struck by a sense of ostentatious, wilful obscurity, the kind of thing addressed on opener The Nightclub Artiste.
When interviewed as to this project, Gerner stated that his pervasive use of black was a reference to "the censure, to the night, the obscurity (the evil), the mystery of things not entirely revealed".
In the Rhind papyrus, its scribe, known as Ahmes, introduces the roughly 85 problems by saying that he is presenting the "correct method of reckoning, for grasping the meaning of things and knowing everything that is, obscurities and all secrets".
Evidence of Things Not Seen Despite its many uses, stock and its origins remain shrouded in obscurity.
I passed by hundreds of booths full of things no one needs and I suspect no one wants, services doomed to languish in obscurity, or devices surfing on a trend that won't last out the year.
Generally speaking, we tend to be afraid of things that we do not understand, especially when there it is something "hidden" and surrounded my mysticism and obscurity.
But the days of sniffing in obscurity are a thing of the past.
Blass, when he bought out his former partners in Maurice Rentner in 1970 to form Bill Blass Ltd., changed things for designers on Seventh Avenue, who used to toil in the relative obscurity of its backrooms.
But the cleverest thing he has ever done is know his limitations and be happy with the obscurity of the backroom boy.
The obscurity of the field was partly the point.
