floating haplessly, the light around him a luminous monochrome cloud... Can any one help me with the meaning of the 2 final lines of this text: "the light around ....) they seem separate sentences but actually are parts of a uniform sentence. How? can any one write them in plain English? Bill Viola uses natural rhythms, as in The Nantes Triptych, where three separate videos are played on a cyclical loop and portray the real-time experience of two women, one giving birth, the other dying, with existence between them portrayed as a kind of underwater struggle, in which a figure plunges repetitively, floating haplessly, the light around him a luminous monochrome cloud, to the sound of rushes of water and air, of troubled breathing interspersed with occasional lulls of anticipatory stillness.