Convex and concave lenses, each one resting on a pair of nails, refract white light from a lamp below. Some of these lenses are from cameras, while others are essentially decorative; some are biconcave, while others still are convex on the underside and flat on the top. Together, they form an educational study in contrasts—light and dark, lifeless but anthropomorphic, static and yet somehow dynamic.
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