Little Light in the Darkness
Richard Pence
From the series In the Shadow of Fire
Acrylic and crackle medium on canvas
40 × 30 in
$3,200
A single vertical flame of cadmium red rises out of near-black, its upper edge broken into a crackled crust of yellow. The darkness is not empty: it is layered, scraped and textured, and gives way slowly in raking light.