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From a distance, the viewer first sees a mass of glowing, transparent spheres. Cloudy light drifts through the upper spheres, while it barely penetrates the dark shapes among the lower ones.
In “Shadow Work no. 2,” Norwegian photographer Torbjørn Rødland takes his time revealing the truth behind the facts that he has gathered inside the frame of his chromogenic print on Kodak Endura paper.
The next bits that caught my eye were golden metal clasps, the kind commonly used to attach decorative globes to Christmas trees. A third element escaped my awareness for a few more seconds: Cotton swabs that appear to float among the spheres. Much smaller still are slender black or white strands of wire poking out here and there.