I LOVE YOU BUT I HAVE CHOSEN DARKNESS

because i didn't really get to go into anything at the presentation, here's my spiel:

My chosen title was: "I love you, but i have chosen darkness". why do i choose this descriptor? as a indication of the mindset of the person traveling through darkness, getting a sense of the beauty and wonder surrounding her, but then plunging back into darkness. The title also serves as a reference to the ecstatic religious experiences that were often the subject of Baroque sculpture, as in, "I Love you" (humanity addressing god), "...but I have chosen darkness" (humanity continuing to be human, versus existing in the revelatory light). i'm not a religious person at all, but i find it fascinating that religious leaders of the Baroque co-opted the corporeal, sensual experiences as a means to relate to the divine.

the handwritten words that you see in the darkness are quotes from a book called, "Art & Ecstasy", my favorite being, "Let me alone. I am in love", which is what an aged Bernini said to an assistant who tried to spirit him away from a marble sculpture after an 18hr day.

please note: there is a grey screen artifact that for some reason popped up when i uploaded to youtube. please disregard that.