Light / Remains

Cyanotypes, poems, and essays exploring how language and image can transform grief into new imaginative possibilities.

The third book in a trilogy that began with PROTOCOLS: An Erasure and continued with Memory of a Larger Mind, Light / Remains returns to the themes of those books with new eyes. Some stories and questions find resolution; others open anew.

The poems are in conversation with cyanotypes from the *Light / Remains* visual series (2020–2022), images made across sites including KL Płaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Svalbard, Kennicott, Cluj, Ana Springs, and Prairie Hill.

Cyanotype's primary pigment, Prussian Blue, shares its chemistry with prussic acid — a key component of Zyklon B, the lethal gas used in Nazi death camps. This chemical fact, and the color's sustained traces in the sites where the gas was used, inform the work. But Light / Remains holds this color's violence in balance with its vivid beauty. Both forces live here, side by side.