Anticipation of the Night

“The daylight shadow of a man in its movement evokes lights in the night. A rose held in hand reflects both sun and moon like illumination. The opening of a doorway onto trees anticipates the twilight into the night. A child is born on the lawn, born of water with its promissory rainbow, and the wild rose. It becomes the moon and the source of all light. Lights of the night become young children playing a circular game. (…) The trees change color and lose their leaves for the morn, they become the complexity of branches in which the shadow man hangs himself.” Stan Brakhage