In Night Watch: Painting with Light, photographer Noel
Kerns brings us a glimpse into a nocturnal world of abandoned
wastelands...both urban and rural. A deserted drive-in on the edge of
forever, a decommissioned military base, a small town being consumed by
its own toxic waste. Kerns uses a technique called Light-Painting to
bring these decaying relics back to life, revealing latent details that
lead our eyes and imaginations on a journey to a secret twilight zone
where the ghosts of our discarded past rise from the ruins in a surreal
spectacle of light. These photographs mark all that remain of failed
ideas and broken things, artifacts of human enterprise vanishing even as
the shutter falls. With light and dark, motion and stillness, Kerns
shows us the forlorn, forgotten, often inexplicable things he finds in
the isolated places that call to him in the night. Places that we too
may visit, in Night Watch: Painting with Light.
