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In a dusty Mexican street, the afternoon sun is so fierce it seems to wound the scene. A woman steps from the pitch-black interior of a doorway into a blade of white light. Behind her, a child's balloon floats against a wall the color of dried blood. Three separate narratives unfold in the same frame, connected only by the merciless, beautiful, suffering light that touches them all.

The title The Suffering of Light is borrowed from a concept by the German poet and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In his Theory of Colours ( Zur Farbenlehre ), Goethe posited that colors are not merely wavelengths of light filtered through a prism, but rather the result of light interacting with darkness. He wrote that "colors are the deeds and sufferings of light." alex webb the suffering of light pdf

When Webb began his career, color was reserved for commercial advertising. The Suffering of Light stands as definitive proof that color is essential to conveying the emotional temperature of a place. In a dusty Mexican street, the afternoon sun