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Chichu Art Museum — Tadao Ando
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Light folded into concrete plane
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Systems of Clarity

Light folded into concrete plane

Chichu Art Museum — Tadao Ando

Light bends along a solid surface.

The plane redirects illumination.

Shadow registers curvature.

How does light behave?
Light is often expected to remain separate from surface, yet it bends along material. Plane redirects illumination. What continues is form revealed through reflection.

Light is usually treated as something that arrives at a surface.

Here, it does not arrive — it adheres.

Illumination bends along the concrete plane, following its curvature rather than opposing it.

The surface does not receive light so much as redirect it.

What becomes legible is not brightness, but continuity.

Light holds to the plane, and form is revealed through shadow that never detaches.

What continues is structure disclosed slowly, as light submits to material rather than overcoming it.

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