Every frame opens the way its light does

The ceiling goes first

In over half of these frames the source is not glow but geometry: bars, slits, wedges, a fan. Those shapes stop at the edge of a photograph. Scroll slowly — the gaps are part of the ceiling.

The bar

The barOverhead fluorescent, stretched into streaks. The tube smears open into the frame.R15

The slit

The slitA shaft of light down a wall of vertical tubes. The slit gives way.R14

The wedge

The wedgeOne hard wedge through hanging haze, and everything outside it falling to black.R12

The fan

The fanA fan of white stripes — six rungs, opening in step.R22

The ceiling
The ceiling

The ceilingThe ceiling goes first: a line, then the full bar, then the corridor it belongs to.R30 · R28

The ladder

The ladderAn open steel staircase, and the light through its treads is a ladder of shadow bars.R08

The shapes stop at the frame's edge.
The page does not.