Untitled (Light Under the Door)

Orit Raff is a contemporary artist whose work focuses on the minimal details of sculptural aspects of close interior surroundings. Raff is known to photograph the marks or impressions made by objects on surfaces, particularly white surfaces. 

At first glance, Light Under the Door appears as both an abstract painting and a landscape. Further examination shows this photograph to be a close-up shot of a beam of light shining under the crack of a door. Raff takes the mundane and ordinary, like the space under a door, a bathtub drain, the edge of a sink, or a folded sheet, and transforms them with precise cropping, close up views, and controlled lighting into serenely beautiful abstractions. Her photographs are extremely minimal and subconsciously representational, sharing a common language with abstract painting and defying both the expectations of the traditional media of art and the modern medium of photography.