The innermost part of a shadow, umbra is beloved of astronomers as they calculate the heavens. Stealing slowly across a sunny balcony, umbra’s contours strike startling poses on a white-washed walls, or lie out, lazily, in half-explored places. Yet its everlasting romance is with Illumination. Umbra lives alongside light – idolizing, contrasting, enhancing their gleaming paramour. And its darkest regions become its greatest tribute – for it knows a shining beacon burns brighter, more hopeful, in the depths of the night.