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Thorne’s work guides our awareness towards the ordinary yet captivating visions
of natural light woven into the fabric of everyday life. Her decision to focus on natural light as her primary subject mat- ter arose from a near-death experience (NDE), when she lost awareness of her physical body, sense of identity, and exter- nal surroundings. Time, meaning, thought, and emotion all ceased. Surrounded by complete darkness, the only observ- able object was a single bright light. This light of absolute clarity consumed her awareness and crystallized her life’s mission to imbue a meditative state of presence into daily life. Thorne has most notably pioneered the use of lenticular technology with fine art photography in her series Luminous Visions, expanding both the theoretical nature and experien- tial relationship of photography.
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