We are all directors of our own reality—willing participants in the theatre of light and shadow. In False Landscapes, I invite you to join me in a suspension of reality: to gaze not at the object, but at the light bouncing off and through it; to believe, if only for a moment, that you are peering into a distant world.

This body of work emerged from a fascination with the quiet, everyday phenomena we are trained to overlook—the golden interior bleeding into daylight, the soft wash of daylight glancing off a sheer screen. These are not grand landscapes; they are fragments of domestic poetry, composed in light.

The images are entirely real, and yet utterly untrue. They pose the question: if we can see a mountain range in the folds, or a desert in the flat, what else are we missing in the rush of the everyday?

My process is intentionally lo-fi. No CGI here—just a camera, some clever angles, and an unapologetically obsessive relationship with light. This is visual sleight of hand, illuminated by curiosity. Think of it as landscape photography… with a twist of light as we peer beyond the curtain.

Biography

Adele Locke is a lighting designer and visual artist who captures fleeting moments of light to reveal imagined landscapes in the everyday. Her work blends technical skill with playful curiosity, transforming the ordinary into luminous illusion.

Instagram: @adele.locke.light