Dan Ratner, Soft Inside (ART 2025)

There is quiet tension between public spaces and private emotion. This set of images are seen through glass, a fragile barrier that both reveals and conceals — allowing us to witness fleeting gestures, glances, and moments suspended in ambient light. There’s a subtle contradiction at play: the spaces are refined, structured, often elegant — yet the people within seem lost in thought, blurred in motion, or adrift in their own worlds. The softness of focus and diffused reflections serve not as distortion, but as invitation — into the emotional interiors of others, and perhaps ourselves. In a world obsessed with sharpness and certainty, this series lingers instead in ambiguity — where feeling precedes form, and observation becomes a kind of empathy.

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