Without You I Dwell In Darkness
by Lori Kingston
Title
Without You I Dwell In Darkness
Artist
Lori Kingston
Medium
Digital Art - Photo, Digitally Altered
Description
In 1988, writer George Lucas and director Ron Howard teamed up on a movie titled "Willow," which starred Warwick Davis in the title role as a young Nelwyn farmer, who finds himself tasked with returning a human baby, Elora Danan, to her people. Along the way he is accompanied by other Nelwyns (all played by little people, at the time the largest casting call for little people ever, with some 200-250 actually appearing in the movie), and joins forces with a human named Madmartigan (self-proclaimed "greatest swordsman of all time") and two tiny Brownies named Rool and Franjean.
The story of this movie, and in particular, the romance between Madmartigan, played by Val Kilmer, and Sorsha, played by Joanne Whalley, was running through my head as I worked on this piece of digital art. Madmartigan, under a spell accidentally cast on him by the Brownies, becomes enchanted by Sorsha, and declares his love for her with passionate lines including, “You are my sun, my moon, my starlit sky. Without you, I dwell in darkness.” Later, after the spell wears off, he says he doesn’t love her, shrugging, “It went away.” This outrages her: “It went away?! You said ‘without you I dwell in darkness’ and it went away?!”
Maybe that pair of scenes was on my mind because I was working with a photo of light and shadow on my daughter’s dorm room wall. It wasn’t a conscious connection, but by the time I’d finished the piece, I had hearts and flames in each corner surrounding snowy plains of blue and white and a meadow of green and yellow in the center. Deciding to name it “Without You I Dwell In Darkness” was an easy next step.
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September 16th, 2021
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