scott b. davis - black sunjune 21, 2012 - september 1, 2012opening on thursday june 21, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. (John Ruskin)Edward Abbey once wrote “You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.” The photography of Scott B. Davis is charged with the same notion. Originally from Maryland, Davis emulated the westward journey of Charle…

"I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was he too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible va…