The title describes a crossing: light travels through darkness rather than merely illuminating it from outside. Chu builds the surface in layers so that radiance appears earned, forced through resistant matter. The modest dimensions intensify this concentration.
By 1991 the artist had a larger Vitry studio and was beginning a period of monumental work, yet this canvas shows that scale alone did not produce expansiveness. Direction, interval, and the pressure between opacity and translucency can make a smaller painting feel cosmological.
