night_paintings of Casole d'Elsa Tuscany in oils by Oliver Bevan

	Every year I teach a summer school in Casole d'Elsa, a small Tuscan hill town. Feeling so completely at home in that environment, I decided to record and probe the quality of life after dark. Tee shirts at midnight, the whole square buzzing with laughter, children on bicycles, and always the magnetic pull of the bars, pouring light from their open fronts. There is also a vulnerability in the light pools, a suggestion that the darkness is poised to engulf them. The sociable drinkers are oblivious of the fragility of their position.