OVERTONES OF LIGHT

In Overtones of Light, Mikkel Due Andersen explores the fragile harmonies that arise when light begins to echo within itself. His photographs are not simply depictions of nature, but meditations on perception — on how reflection, refraction, and vibration can transform familiar subjects into something abstract and otherworldly. In his images, flowers, insects, and graphic fragments of the natural world dissolve and multiply, as if light were remembering its own path through them.

Through extreme proximity, Andersen enters the threshold where form turns into frequency. Petals become waves, fur becomes rhythm, and the fine geometry of leaves or wings hums with invisible resonance. Each image captures a fleeting optical chord — a dialogue between surface and reflection, precision and chance, presence and echo.

Technically, the series grows from an intuitive interplay between vintage optics and natural light. Andersen works with old manual lenses whose imperfect glass renders subtle halos, chromatic ghosts, and unpredictable flare — optical artifacts that modern precision would erase. By combining these lenses with carefully chosen angles and long exposures, he allows the reflections to drift, overlap, and build luminous harmonies within the frame. The result feels less constructed than discovered — as if the photograph had emerged by listening to light rather than chasing it.

Overtones of Light invites us to see nature not as static form, but as a field of vibrations — a living system of resonances. What at first appears abstract reveals itself as deeply organic, connecting the smallest movement of a wing to the silent pulse of the landscape. Andersen’s work becomes a meditation on perception itself: an invitation to see light not just as something that reveals the world, but as something that dreams within it.