Light does not behave. It is described as behaving — by textbooks, by instruments, by people who were not looking closely. Silver Veil Optics was founded on the premise that what you see is never exactly what is there, and that the difference between the two is not an error to be corrected but a phenomenon to be measured. We work in Point Reyes, California, where the fog gives us between forty and one hundred usable anomaly-days per year. We document exclusively on analog film. Digital sensors have opinions.
Perception is an instrument no one calibrates. We are calibrating it.
Margaux Leclaire
Margaux transitioned to research from cinematography following an assignment in the Arctic that she does not describe except to say that the light was wrong. She has declined to provide a photograph, noting that a portrait is “a measurement taken by an instrument I have not audited.”
Callum Briggs
A retired optometrist from Edinburgh, Callum answered a classified ad seeking “a collaborator with expertise in human visual perception” and has described every day since as “a very good puzzle.” He supplied a photograph. It was badly overexposed. Margaux has called the result “actually quite appropriate” and it is retained in our records as submitted.
- Vantage Point Labs (AF-01) — Margaux and Dr. Caldwell maintain a correspondence of mutual regard, conducted at a frequency both consider sufficient: roughly twice per year.
- Long Glass Research Collective (AF-04) — Callum and Dr. Craine’s ongoing email exchange on the nature of observation is, by volume, the largest single document ever produced within Axiom Frontier.
- Pioneer Signal (AF-05) — Pioneer Signal once requested to feature our work. The request was reviewed with care and declined with more.
Our work is best understood in person. We do not distribute findings digitally.