Inverse Chrono-Spatial Axis Shift
Inverse Chrono-Spatial Axis Shift (ICSAS) is a signature visual methodology that explores the convergence of perception, memory, light, and space through a hybrid photographic process. At its core, the technique involves the use of long-exposure photography paired with intentional, choreographed camera movement during the exposure itself.
This deliberate manipulation of the lens’ axis—termed the “photonic axis shift”—sculpts streams of light across time, transforming motion into form. These dynamic gestures are not captured as blur, but as carefully directed traces of energy.
Once photographed, the images undergo a digital inversion, subverting the visual field by transforming light into darkness and presence into absence.
This dual-layered inversion—temporal and chromatic—reshapes the viewer’s relationship to space, collapsing the linear experience of time into a singular visual moment. The resulting compositions are abstract, architectural, and emotionally resonant: black-and-white images that evoke energy fields, memory structures, or the psychological weight of stillness.
By stripping away color, the work isolates geometry and contrast, enhancing the tension between structure and void, control and surrender. Rooted in philosophical influences from phenomenology, Vedantic non-duality, and quantum temporality, ICSAS is not merely an aesthetic style but a conceptual framework—one that transforms photography into a perceptual inquiry.
Each image becomes a spatial meditation, a site where motion and memory intersect in silence. In this technique, light is not just a means of illumination but a material of thought, and the camera becomes less a recorder of events and more a vessel for translating unseen dimensions of being.
We are accustomed to believing in the world as it appears, shaped by light, color, structure, and certainty. But what happens when we flip the visual script? When black becomes white, warmth becomes chill, and the known becomes unfamiliar? Inversion isn't just a digital effect. For me, it’s a philosophical tool. A way to rupture our habitual seeing, to reveal what lies beneath the skin of the visible.
I. Opening the Frame
We are taught to trust what we see—to treat color, form, and time as constants. But art allows us to rupture this trust. To invert perception, and with it, the meaning we assign to reality. In this project, inversion is not just a visual trick. It is a gesture of questioning, a dismantling of habit.
By inverting photographic images—collapsing white into black, light into dark—I reveal a hidden world. One that is not opposite, but beneath. A world that feels colder, quieter, and more enigmatic, yet paradoxically closer to something essential.
The white space isn't empty—it’s the residue of moments. Like a dream we forgot upon waking but still feel in the body.
II. The Absolute Space Point
This work draws conceptual energy from the field of physics—specifically, the idea of an absolute space point. In Newtonian mechanics, it is an unchanging, fixed location in the universe: the silent backdrop to all movement and matter.
But I reframe it as something intimate.
What if each of us carries within us an absolute point—not in space, but in consciousness? A place beyond time, where personal memories, insights, and turning points live on as silent coordinates. These are the inner reference points by which we navigate. We may forget their details, but their impact shapes the whole terrain.
Through visual inversion, I attempt to reveal this hidden architecture. The stark, minimalist spaces become emotional landscapes—evoking solitude, stillness, and the tension between restlessness and serenity. The abstract strokes layered into some frames mimic architectural lines, bridging time and space. These aren't rooms. They are remnants of experience.
III. Painting with Light
In a parallel strand of this project, I move into pure abstraction—working with long-exposure photography to capture the unseen flow of time and motion.
Here, light becomes my medium, and time becomes a living material. During microsecond-long exposures, I perform controlled gestures with the camera, sculpting the incoming light into fluid, symmetrical forms. The process is meditative, rooted in intention and spontaneity.
By rendering these compositions in black and white, I remove all distractions. What remains is a stark focus on geometry, movement, and texture. Each photograph becomes a visual mantra—a meditation on presence, a trace of a moment that no longer exists, yet still pulses within the frame.
These aren’t just abstract images. They are temporal fossils, imprints of energy moving through stillness.
IV. Inversion as Spiritual Architecture
This entire body of work—both the inverted spatial photographs and the light-trail abstractions—is an attempt to slow time. To stretch open a space where the viewer doesn’t just see but senses.
Through inversion, the real becomes unreal. And in the unreal, a deeper reality begins to flicker. A place beyond narrative, beyond ego, beyond ordinary seeing. A place that may echo Rupert Spira’s insight:
“Nothing ever really happens… and yet everything arises from the stillness of being.”
What you see in these works is not the world reversed. It is the world remembered differently. The camera becomes a vessel of memory, and memory becomes space itself.
V. Closing Reflection
We live in motion, but meaning resides in stillness. This work invites the viewer to pause—to feel, rather than decode. To reimagine perception not as a passive act, but as a portal into the space between things.
What if nothing ever really happened… and everything is still happening… right here, within this absolute point of stillness?
Instructions to enter the dimension.
To invert colours on your Android phone, navigate to Settings > Accessibility > Color and motion > Colour inversion and enable "Use colour inversion". On iPhones, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and toggle on "Smart Invert" or "Classic Invert".
Then with the inverted coloured phone open your Camera and interact the world in inverted colours.
Android:
Open the Settings app.
Select "Accessibility".
Under "Colour and motion," select "Colour inversion".
Toggle on "Use colour inversion".
iPhone:
Open the Settings app.
Select "Accessibility".
Choose "Display & Text Size".
Toggle on "Smart Invert" for a smart inversion, or "Classic Invert" for a full inversion.