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Refraction

These paintings ship ready to hang, stretched on a wooden stretcher bar. Please note that the floater frame shown in some images is not included.
Refraction is a series of paintings exploring how light bends, splits, and doubles as it passes through a surface. Where earlier works in First Light, Horizon, and Afterglow trace the arrival, spread, and lingering of luminosity, Refraction turns toward what happens when light meets a threshold — the soft mirroring, the quiet inversion, the way a single source can resolve into two.
The works continue a conversation with James Turrell's investigations of perceptual space, and draw on the chromatic fields of Mark Rothko, the saturated immersions of Yves Klein, and the soft gradients of Wolfgang Tillmans' abstract photograms — artists for whom color, edge, and transition carry the weight that line and form do elsewhere.
Each canvas is built with a very large brush, drawn across the surface in a single, sustained direction until the pigment thins to near-transparency and the white of the canvas beneath begins to glow through. The motion itself produces the symmetry — color settling into bands that meet and fold into one another, holding the eye in a quiet horizontal stillness. Under certain light the paintings stop reading as paint entirely and seem lit from within. A heavy varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface.
Refraction is a series about thresholds — the soft, doubled moment where light meets its own reflection and the eye is held between the two.

Shipping:
This series of paintings ships stretched on a wooden stretcher bar and is basically ready to hang. The floater frame in the picture is not included, a similar style frame can easily be attached by the buyer if desired.
Measurements listed are those of the finished piece on the stretcher frame — the actual canvas fabric is larger (4-5 cm on each side) in case the buyer decides to change the included stretcher frame with a thicker one

Disclaimer:
Process photos included in the listing show studies and works in progress