A woman walks below the long colonnade outside of Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts – the early morning sunlight grazing her arm, hand, and foot. The rest of her is enveloped in darkness. In an instant she was gone. Since I was exposing on the exterior of the building, the shadow is entirely black, swallowing the woman who is unknowingly walking into it. Her arm, hand and foot are the last parts I saw of her. Such shadows can symbolize the unknown, a mystery, and a void. Someone entering that void seems to be lost forever. For all practical purposes, this woman is in the process of vanishing.