left: Chiaroscuro 30014-009, right: Chiaroscuro 30014-004
chiaroscuro in painting, in which 3D form is revealed only through the glancing of light and shadow against its contours, the liminal, indeterminate clair-obscur of the romantics, or via the Japanese love of low light
so eloquently expressed by writer Junichiro Tanizaki, to rediscover the beauty of shadows is a revelation. In a too-brightly-lit world, it is easy to forget that light glows most beautifully against gloom. And just as a woman’s skin is