Interesting how water, looking through water, makes me more aware of the action of light. The thicker medium reminding that even in air light is affected: coloured, refracted, fractured, diffused, condensed, striated.
In the same way that masks can work to conceal but also to present a particular version or aspect of a person, light too operates paradoxically, obscuring, revealing, changing things, showing textures and details, smoothing things out in a burn-out brightness (like snow on a landscape).
