Peter Schumann, the director of the world-famous Bread & Puppet Theater, under seige by Covid in his studio, has been painting on a huge collection of old bedsheets donated to the theater, and scrawling wisdom screeds on small pieces of paper. He, like most of us, is appalled by the stupidity triumphant, steering the planet toward several destinations of doom. At the same time, nursing his indomitable spirit, Schumann, unlike many of us, can imagine the possibility of light and transcendence.

Beginning with black and white murmurings, Declaration of Light bursts into flaming color as our inevitable struggle ensues, and settles into landscapes of green and blue as hope extrapolates and gathers.