Since childhood, I have lived between moments of clarity and opacity. Keratoconus—a condition that alters the shape of the cornea and changes the path of light—revealed something fundamental: before recognition occurs, the body negotiates with light, fills in what is missing, and stabilizes what trembles.

Afterlight emerges from this experience and inhabits the moment before things become visible: when light arrives before the object, atmosphere matters more than detail, and sensation precedes recognition.

When visual stability is no longer a certainty, how do we continue to trust what we see? The project shifts attention toward the act of seeing itself.

In that space, the image does not impose itself—it is negotiated.