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Reflections are annoying.

Once you start noticing them, they're impossible to ignore.

That's how Polgaze began.

A single pane of ordinary glass leaning on a wooden stand beside a window in soft morning light, next to an open notebook of pencil sketches — the beginning of an idea

We couldn't quite let it go.

Why have we accepted this?

It's a simple question with a long answer. Answering it meant understanding what happens where light meets a surface, and that took time.

So the annoyance became a question, and the question became the work. What began as one person's irritation is now years of research.

We are learning to work with light, rather than around it.

It started with a simple annoyance.

We're still asking why we ever accepted it.