Darkness

In Wubes latest video Darkness 2021 the artist questions negative associations of the word presenting it instead as the alpha and omega a productive force behind the formation and existence of the universe and a condition leading to the possibility of light and images as experienced in time A continuous fastpaced slideshow of black and white images culled from Google searches of compound words beginning with dark form the background for vivid animations of the same words in an attempt to undermine any viewers preconceptions Wube stresses that while blackness is visible because of the presence of light darkness defined as the absence of light cannot be seen or therefore described