About This Issue

Nighten brings together Baroque scenes shaped by closeness, quiet intensity, and human presence. These works unfold indoors and after dark, where light is limited and attention sharpens. What matters is not spectacle, but what passes between people. A shared game, a searched-for harmony, a moment of pain witnessed by many, a letter carrying distance into a silent room.

This selection favors moments that hold rather than resolve. Emotion appears through pause, touch, and restraint. Drama lives in waiting, in listening, in the weight of what is felt but not spoken. Baroque technique serves this purpose, drawing us nearer, slowing us down, and asking us to stay.

Nighten is an invitation to enter these spaces without haste. To sit with the scenes as they are. To notice how much life gathers when the world grows quieter and light is used carefully.