from Tasneem

'Oh, I get it. Each direction we look at the shadow tells us something more. Does that mean that the more ways we look at it, the more we know about it? '

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/tomography/projections.html

People usually don't pay much attention to the things they see everyday. A key to being a good artist, however, is noticing things that other people often miss.

Take shadows. Most people don't bother to look at shadows. But, once you start looking for shadows, you'll discover them all around you. Looking at shadows might seem strange at first. Yet, it's a good way to focus your vision and reacquaint yourself with your surroundings...

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/ART/RT_ROOM/@rtrageous/shadows.html


and...

Come like shadows, so depart!
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Witches at IV, i)

I found it rather relevant, taking in to account Jenny's mysterious disappearance and the voice she heard telling her to 'look to the shadows'...

It also struck me as rather curious that Jenny scribed the question 'all the world's a stage?' below 'look to the shadows' in her notebook. For we all know that 'all the world's a stage' comes from Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' and continues:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
If our normal everyday existence is on or within the realm of the 'stage', then the shadows must be outside the stage, beyond it, hidden from the spotlight - the wings perhaps or backstage...concealed from view...temporarily or permanently.

Looking to the shadows seems to be like looking to the unknown, towards a mystery.

The shadows seem synonymous with the 'exits' of the players and this seems the case with young Jenny. Like a shadow, she has departed and where she has gone, nobody seems to know.

Shadows are not tangible, they are fleeting - existing at certain times, in certain places. The rhythm of the shadows and their various patterns of existence within the NT may point us toward what we are looking to find.