NZ Visual Diary - entry 286

a gathering of night - K Road

The dynamic tensions within this image attracted my eye.

The white glare of lights overhead set against the limitless black of the right edge.

The towering figure on the left and the diminished pair of figures, mostly a tangle of legs, at the upper-right corner.

The cloistered engagement of the seated couple in the foreground and the isolated but open posturing of the three figures in the middle ground.

The anchored solidity of the foreground couple pulling unsuccessfully at the fleeting orbit of the vanishing background figures.

a gathering of night: at once stark and ephemeral; vivid and spectral; corporeal and insubstantial.