Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black
and inky whether your eyes are open or closed? Where you can't see your hand in front of your
face? Jacqueline Yallop can. It was in an unfamiliar bedroom while holidaying in Yorkshire as
a child and ever since then she has been fascinated by the dark by our efforts to capture or
avoid it by the meanings we give to it and the way our brains process it. Taking a journey
into the dark secrets of place body and mind she documents a series of night-time walks
exploring both the physical realities of darkness and the psychological dark that helps shape
our sense of self. Exploring our enduring love-hate relationship with states of darkness she
considers how we attempt to understand and contain the dark and as she comes to terms with
her father's deteriorating Alzheimer's she reflects on how our relationship with the dark can
change with time and circumstance. Darkness captivates baffles and appals us. It's a shifty
thing of many textures and many moods. It can be an absence and a presence a solace and a
threat a beginning and an end. Into the Dark is the story of the many darks that fascinate and
assail us. It faces the darkness in all its guises and mysteries celebrating it as a thing of
beauty while peering into the void.
