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Haroon Mirza — Light as Drift
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Drift becomes structure
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Structural Atmospheres
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Signals produce light drift. Rhythm emerges from feedback. Structure remains unstable.

Light as Drift

Haroon Mirza — Light as Drift

Light shifts gradually across the surface.

Direction remains unresolved.

Movement is slow.

What resists fixation?

Light often stabilizes orientation, but movement remains gradual and unsettled.

Direction never resolves.

What continues is shift held open over time.

Structural Concepts

Structural Atmospheres
Atmosphere emerges from underlying structural and material systems.
Light
Illumination that reveals, conceals, or reshapes form.
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Haroon Mirza
A Chamber for Horwitz; Sonakinatography Transcriptions in Surround Sound 

2015
Custom audio visual device, LEDs, speakers, foam

© Photography Bettina Matthiessen

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