Enlightening through blackening by Gor Chahal

The medial action is a documental shooting of a computer screen while the author covers with black color white background with a white cross in Painter application: the cross can’t be blackened, since it’s on a higher layer of the graphic file. Firstly, the screen seems to be light blue and the cross is unseen. The more blackening is done, the lighter the screen seems to be thanks to automatic settings of adjustments of contrast the camera has. The cross gradually reveals itself against the dark background and gets brighter and brighter, until at the very end of the action it starts shining. We have to add that the author didn’t expect any of the effects of the action and they were quite of a surprise to him. It’s a clear manifestation of impossibility of blackening our Church, no matter how hard its opponents try. “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not” (John 1:5).

Gor Chahal. Moscow, 2012.