Last Light — Ossabaw Island, John Gholson

31°47′40″N · 81°6′44″W · Ossabaw Island, Georgia

LAST LIGHT

Film Photography — Ossabaw Dusk

Medium Film Photography
Location Ossabaw Island, Georgia
Artist John Gholson
Period circa 2008–2013

No artificial light reaches Ossabaw after dark. What remains is this — the last warmth above a black horizon, clouds moving freely in sky that has never been interrupted. The island teaches what darkness actually is. Composers Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber both worked on this island. It is easy to understand why. This sky produces music. The silhouette of the marsh at this exact transition between day and night is the island's most private moment.

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