"The Living Light" is a series of photographs of medieval architecture. It became the first solo exhibition I ever had, which ran at The Ryerson Gallery (Toronto), Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), The College of St. Francis (Joliet, Ill.), and Regis College (Toronto). The title was taken from the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, whose writings were contemporary with many of the buildings I photographed for the exhibition:
The brightness that I see is not spatial, yet it is far, far more lucid than a cloud that envelops the sun. And as sun, moon and stars appear mirrored in water, so scriptures, discourses, and some works of men take for me, and are reflected, radiant, in this brightness. And the words I see and hear from this vision are not like the words that come from human lips, but like a sparkling flame, or a cloud floating in pure air. And in that same brightness I sometimes, not often, see another light, which I call the Living Light.
The brightness that I see is not spatial, yet it is far, far more lucid than a cloud that envelops the sun. And as sun, moon and stars appear mirrored in water, so scriptures, discourses, and some works of men take for me, and are reflected, radiant, in this brightness. And the words I see and hear from this vision are not like the words that come from human lips, but like a sparkling flame, or a cloud floating in pure air. And in that same brightness I sometimes, not often, see another light, which I call the Living Light.