Nancy Edelstein




Light is both the subject and the substance of my work. With simple materials and shifting methods, I explore and photograph light’s multiple properties as it bends and moves through space. Rather than documenting objects, I’m interested in capturing visual encounters with light’s unique qualities all around us.
I begin with a simple intention: To make light visible. I place interruptions in light’s trajectory in attempts to expose moments of light’s interactions that are unable to be seen directly with our own eyes. The reflection, interference, refraction and distortion that the camera captures is the result of strategically placed reflective surfaces redirecting light's trajectories.
The images present a new vocabulary of unfamiliar forms, shapes, and spaces that exist between abstraction and reality. Together, they offer a visual challenge, questioning if what we see is real, and a perceptual challenge to what we know as true.
No manipulation or Al has been used in the making of this work.
