Shadows

by Alexandra Grant (Artist), Keanu Reeves (Contributor)

What exactly is a shadow? Is it light tracing an object or the shape a body throws when it comes between a light source and a surface? Is it a metaphor for the intimate, darker side of a person's nature-as Carl Jung postulated-and the unconscious side of one's self, where daemons and secrets are kept hidden or repressed? Is it an allegorical place between darkness and light, death and living? Or is it a state of illusion, like Plato's cave? Is it a verb that means to follow or accompany, or even to spy on? Shadows, a new collaborative series by Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, explores the real and symbolic nature of the shadow as image and figure of speech. Grant's photographs capture Reeves's shadow at times as a silhouette and at others as traces of light as he and the camera move together. In transforming the images into color and reversing light for dark, Grant has made the shadows themselves the source of light. Reeves's texts, written in tandem with the creation of the images, give voice to the multiple manifestations of the shadow: as a projected figure, a place of concealed emotion and an invocation to shadow play.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

96 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 2014

Reviews

[Badwill Ambassador · Rating 5 out of 5]

This seemed too personal to even be published. Many thanks to both creators for sharing it with the world.

[Alma Petterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was good read.

[Elle Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thought-provoking and haunting. The words walk beside the images well although I think more is meant by the things left unsaid. Beautiful.

[Wendy Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliance, sheer utter brilliance.