Silence and Light - 루이스 칸

Insperation is the feeling of beginning at the threshold where Silence and Light meet.

Silence, the unmeasurable, desire to be, desire to expess, the source of new need, meets Light, the measurable, giver of all presence, by will, by law, the measurable of things already made, at a threshold which is insperation, the sanctuary of art, the Treasury of Shadow.

The artist offers his work to his art in the sanctuary of all expression, which I like to call the Treasury of the shadow. lying in that ambiance : Light to silence, silence to Light. Light, the giver of presence, casts it shadow, which belongs to Light. What is made belongs to Light and to Desire.

I likened the emergence of Light to a manifestation of two brothers, knowing quite well that there are not two brothers, nor even one. But I saw that one is the embodiment of the desire. to be, to express, and one (not saying "the other")is to be, to be. The latter is nonluminous, and the former, prevailing, is luminous. This prevailing luminous source can be visualized as becoming a wild dance of flame that settles and spends itself into material. Material, I believe, is spent Light.

Silence and Light. Silence is not very, very quiet. It is something that you may say is lightless, darkless. These are all invented words. Darkless-there is no such word. But why not? Lightless; darkless. Desire to be, to express.

Some can say this is the ambient soul-if you go back beyond and think of something in which Light and Silence were together, and may be still together, and separate only for the convenience of argument.

- Louise I. Kahn