REFRACTED | 24 Hours of Light

This project explores the shifting nature of perception through light, optics, and material form. Conceived as a spatial and photographic study of refraction and reflection, the work uses suspended lenses and ephemeral sculptural elements to create a continuously changing visual field that sits between abstraction and physical reality.

Developed in close collaboration with visual artist & photographer Ryan Hopkinson, the imagery was constructed through a meticulous layering of camera plates, each capturing a different optical interaction as light passed through glass, air, and surface. 

Rather than relying on post production effects or digital manipulation, the project privileged physical experimentation, allowing distortion, flare, and diffraction to emerge organically through the lens as light and matter interacted in real time.

The resulting images invite a slower, more attentive way of seeing. Light becomes both subject and medium, and form is never fixed, dissolving and reforming with each subtle shift of perspective, offering the viewer a quiet space to experience how perception itself is shaped, refracted, and reimagined.