I have always been fascinated by light, colour, form and their ability to shape and redefine each other. Macro photography has always been a great passion of mine because it allows for thorough observation and capture of one's subject. In this project I wanted to surrender myself to the process and allow the images to be born out of my movement around the subject rather than by planning my compositions ahead of time.

I started by building small structures out of glass objects on top of a mirror. Around them, I placed three round mirrors. I had initially intended to shoot more “classic” studies of the glass surfaces and how they interacted with light, but that concept was quickly dissolved by what I started to witness through my lens. The shoot became an amazingly intricate journey into the abstract. Each pull of the focus, no matter how slight, revealing new wondrous visual landscapes shaped by the reflection and refraction of light. Each minute motion redefining my subject and composition and plunging me into a new ocean of visual possibilities. The whole time I could almost feel my mind forming the synapses that were guiding me through this journey. An experience that became more abstract, surreal and introspective with each closing and opening of the shutter curtain revealing the next awe-inspiring performance of glass and light.

In the end, each photo displayed frozen glimpses of cosmic-like images. The stories they tell and questions they beg are ever changing with each pass of the eye.  I had once again witnessed the magnitude of beauty just waiting to be grasped within the most mundane objects that surround us.

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