Roaming the Darkening City

• Photographer
  Lynn Saville, United States
• Studio
  Lynn Saville Photographer

I have been a roamer of iconic and overlooked urban sites during the liminal time of twilight. In this threshold period, daylight gives way to moonlight and the artificial light of streetlights, spectacles, and advertisements. But in this series neither a city’s iconic sites nor its goods are being advertised. This is unexpected, in that a city’s purpose isdisplay—of persons, commodities, architecture. But for me, the darkening city has been stripped of its agreed-upon transactions and attractions. It is where the infrastructure dreams its own dreams and light and shadow dance uninterrupted.