“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. [...] Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty”
OUT OF THE SHADOWS 2 nd NOVEMBER - 2 nd DECEMBER 2017
Junichirō Tanizaki In Praise of Shadows, 1933
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