Alexandra Grant & Keanu Reeves: Shadows Hardcover – October 31, 2014
by Alexandra Grant (Artist), Keanu Reeves (Contributor)

What exactly is a shadow? Is it light tracing an object or the shape a body throws when it comes between a light source and a surface? Is it a metaphor for the intimate, darker side of a person's nature-as Carl Jung postulated-and the unconscious side of one's self, where daemons and secrets are kept hidden or repressed? Is it an allegorical place between darkness and light, death and living? Or is it a state of illusion, like Plato's cave? Is it a verb that means to follow or accompany, or even to spy on? Shadows, a new collaborative series by Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, explores the real and symbolic nature of the shadow as image and figure of speech. Grant's photographs capture Reeves's shadow at times as a silhouette and at others as traces of light as he and the camera move together. In transforming the images into color and reversing light for dark, Grant has made the shadows themselves the source of light. Reeves's texts, written in tandem with the creation of the images, give voice to the multiple manifestations of the shadow: as a projected figure, a place of concealed emotion and an invocation to shadow play.

the 'thing' got a cover image already ;)

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Is there anything Keanu can NOT do?

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Get Passengers off the ground already, dammit. :(
Sorry.
Couldn't help it.

http://www.acmelosangeles.com/exhibitions/2016-2-alexandra-grant/?view=pressrelease

Sunday, February 21, 2016 | 4 pm

Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves talk about the implications and multiple manifestations of shadows, and the intimate influence of collaboration on private imagination.

Shadows
Text by Keanu Reeves with photographs by Alexandra Grant
Steidl, Gottingen, 2015 | Hardcover, 96 pp | $60

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http://issuemagazine.com/shadows-2/#/

However, this shit just sends me right over the edge:
http://websta.me/p/1190207652130085576_43902709

Admittedly, I've only seen this "no big deal, Keanu just going out of his way to be kind and generous" sort of thing a few times over maybe a year, but seriously? I want to slap these people into next week. Do they think they're clever? cool? or are they just bimbos and trophy-hunters being rude in the face of kindness? I don't believe for a second that they're fans, and if they consider themselves fans, they're a disgrace.

I did see this kind of thing a few times at Dogstar concerts, and Keanu picks up on it instantly - though you'd never realize that if you weren't really paying attention. It makes me sad and angry. He's so generous, such a nice man.

End rant. Thank you, Keanu and Alexandra. You both rock.

Keanu and Alexandra Grant talk about how Shadows came to be.

and

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/celebrities-theyre-in-art-now-too