III. Defectus Lucis

The Space After Light explores how colour and form are perceived when illumination is reduced, unstable, or receding. Rather than depicting darkness as an absence, the works focus on the visual effort of recognition in low-light conditions — the moment when the eye attempts to resolve space with incomplete information.

Across the collection, light is treated as conditional rather than absolute. Colour persists without certainty, edges soften, and forms are inferred rather than fully revealed. The palette reflects this perceptual shift, translating shades of darkness into a visually legible language shaped by restraint and tonal compression.

The works are organised into three chapters that describe distinct states of light after daylight: Lux Secunda examines reflected, secondary illumination; Irides explores diffuse and unstable atmospheric light; and Defectus Lucis addresses the withdrawal of light at the threshold where perception begins to fail. Together, the collection considers night not as spectacle, but as a spatial and perceptual condition shaped by what remains once light can no longer be relied upon.