9Sept2012 S2: Light&Silence  ishin's picture  When looking at
Jomaira’s images, I was actually a little startled.  Not because
their image reflects a dimension of silence I seldom imagine,
but because several years ago, I would have likely put up a very
similar image of silence.  What startled me was that I didn’t
realize how my first-gut connotations of silence have shifted in
recent years.  Before, my initial thoughts and feelings of
silence would have been ones that were associated with
oppression, the inability to speak, absence, dark—concepts that
I think are evoked when looking at their images.  But recently,
I often associate silence with more positive notions and less
tension.  Just as one example of how and why, I think of silence
and light together and chose my photo accordingly.  We often
forget how remarkably silent light is given what it does.
 Light, unassuming and silent, has capabilities that range from
giving us the capacity of sight, the dichotomy of day and night,
and also life itself.  The