image credit: Andreas Resch"Deep shadows and darkness are essential, because they dim the sharpness of vision , make depth and distance ambiguous and invite unconscious peripheral vision and tactile fantasy." (Pallasmaa, 46)
Shadows give shape and life to the object in light. It is essential to our view of reality. It not only finds beauty in the thing of itself but in the patterns of light and darkness where one creates another. The patterns give spatial imagination and a place for mental withdrawal and privacy.
Pallasmaa, Juhani. 2005. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Sense. Great Britain: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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