Movie Review: Dark Light- the Art of Blind Photographers

Her.meneutics movie review: "Dark Light- the Art of Blind Photographers" in speaking about art that reveals our need for grace:

"Eckert, whose work is an ethereal masterpiece of precision and planning, doesn’t want to chronicle the sighted world or depend on sighted people to make his photographs. On his website, he writes: “It is important to me that the sighted think about blindness. . . . Talking with people in galleries builds a bridge between my mind’s eye and their vision of my work. Occasionally people refuse to believe I am blind. I am a visual person. I just can't see.”

What one discovers anew through these films and the artists they highlight is that the world is a magnificently broken and beautiful place. It is full of pain that can at once overwhelm and inspire. The brokenness of others reflects back to us our own brokenness and need for grace, if we have eyes to see. All too often, however, we refuse to believe we are blind. Sometimes it takes an artist to remind us that we too are visual people who just can’t see.

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are" (Matt. 6:28-29), This reference to paradoxical beauty comes in the middle of an exhortation not to worry. The Lord concludes it with this word of comfort (v. 30): “And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?” Why indeed?"