A Different Ambience of Black


Is this an exterior or an interior..? What you see is actually a wall inside a house... A building without a roof..!

Hyperrealism is sometimes claimed to be the characteristic mode of postmodernism (for example Jean Baudrillard in Simulations, 1983). In the realm of the hyperreal, the distinction between simulation and the "real" disappears...

Crime novels/psychological thrillers, crime television series etc. may, at times, influence our view of black/darkness... These kinds of genres are often inspiration sources - also in everyday life...

In certain expressions, "dark" denotes something destructive, scary and/or depressive. These expressions are popular - easy to use - in the media. This may be contributing to the survival of the particular associations... 

Especially in regions with relatively few sun hours, it is important to note that more or less creepy, obscure associations concerning black are neither natural nor deterministic... See Ambience below, where we go beyond this, and Struggle with God, another example of hyperrealism.