Places of Light #1
by Krystyna Sanderson

Medium: Silver gelatin photograph
Date: 1995

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Artist statement: I love light rushing into and juxtaposing itself with darkness. I love shadows contrasting with illumination. I love the contrast and drama of light wrestling with dark, invading the dark and challenging it. I love the ever-changing patterns of shadows opposing their twin structures of light. I love the power of light, its presence. When light meets dark, it has enormous energy. It rushes in, it fills the darkness, it takes over. Light means hope. Light means freedom. Light means life.

Jesus Christ is the Light of the World, and the light-darkness contrast comes to signify the mutually hostile worlds of good and evil. Jesus Christ is our spiritual light which points to a truth inaccessible to sight and touch but apprehensible by the eyes of faith. Christ points to our Father, who can bring us from the darkness into light, from death to life, from anxiety to peace, from fear to love, from pain into joy, from our helpless poverty into the limitless kindness of God, to God’s undeserved grace, God’s sheer loveliness, God’s awesome beauty. (From: Krystyna Sanderson, Light, It was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God. Baltimore: Square Halo, 2006.)

Biographical Information: Krystyna Sanderson, fine-art photographer, has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad. She is the author of the books "Masks" and "Light at Ground Zero: St. Paul’s Chapel After 9/11." She is a contributing author of a chapter on "Light" in the book "It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God." She is a chair of New York ECVA Chapter and a founding member of the board of directors of ECVA. Krystyna is a third-year resident in psychoanalysis and faith at the Blanton Peale Graduate Institute, NYC. She worships at Grace Episcopal Church at NYC.