“The divine Darkness is the inaccessible Light in which God is said to dwell.” — Henry-Charles Puech
According to certain Gnostic doctrines—such as the one inspired by the Mystical Darkness of the Syrian philosopher Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite—the caligine (gloom) represents the obscuring of the divine spark within the soul, a mist that veils inner truth.
In this project, the transition from positive to negative becomes an imaginative act of revelation. The use of thermal paper—fragile and destined to fade—reflects the precariousness of meanings and symbols now dissolving under new forms of contemporary darkness: hyper-connection, media narcissism, loss of the sacred, and the aesthetics of emptiness.
In contrast, the engraved stone endures as memory and relic, a trace of knowledge submerged by time. The photographic inversion illuminates what was hidden, transforming shadow into light and matter into inner vision.
It is a journey through gnosis, archaeology, and photography—an attempt to see the stone not merely as an object, but as a mirror of the soul.
