“I Found Night is a pictorial setting of a haunting poem by Greg DiMarco. Darkness and despair can follow us each day, and it is important for us to “dream the sun, the stars, warmth, and joy.”

I wrote this piece which sets a text by a dear friend of mine. Initially, I asked him to write a text including the phrase, “I found night,” with no other parameters. Needless to say, he spun some kind of magical thread, and produced an incredibly mysterious and evocative web of text.

At various times in my life, I’ve been plagued with insomnia. True insomnia, which debilitates a person in so many different ways. For me, this manifests as hours of tossing and turning both physically and mentally. Circular thought patterns relentlessly loop over one another, which is maddening. In those moments, the only hope I had was to imagine that I was thrust into tomorrow, and greeted by the warmth of sunrise. In Greg’s text he writes the lines, “If I could sleep, I would dream the sun.” Which might sound counterintuitive, if not for the warm embrace of morning light that greets one after hours and hours of restlessness.