Where shadow covers rock

Painted by the sun
Komoka, ON
August 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Deep in the woods, the canopy overhead turns an otherwise blazingly hot, sunny day into a hushed, cool, green-tinted oasis.

Good for personal comfort, but pretty lousy for photography, which apparently needs more light than this place can muster.

Still, defiant slashes of sunlight manage to push through the leaves high above and randomly scatter themselves here and there across the forest floor.

I come across a rock that’s been lit up by one of them, and my eyes zero in not on the plant growing in front of it, but by the shadow that’s been left behind.

I’m struck by the fact that the absence of something has now become my central focus, as if a figurative vacuum is even worthy of attention (pro tip: it is. Negative space is a thing.)

As I tuck the camera away and head back to the real world, I make a mental note to continue looking into the shadows.

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