Shapes I’d Like To Be offers an intriguing lens to view the work of Nora Curiston. Nora treats light as a way to reshape perception. Her installations of dissolved edges and flattened depths blur the distinction between physical space and optical experience, encouraging viewers to become aware of the act of seeing itself.

Are our emotional responses influenced not only by what we see, but by the fundamental qualities of light, colour, and form? Psychology and neuroscience says that rounded shapes are often perceived as calming and welcoming, while angular forms heighten alertness and tension. Likewise, variations in colour temperature, brightness, and contrast can measurably alter mood, attention, and physiological arousal. This exhibition extends that dialogue by exploring how the interaction of light and geometric form can evoke subtle emotional shifts.

Rather than prescribing meaning, the work invites viewers into a perceptual encounter where atmosphere, memory, and feeling emerge through the body’s innate response to light, pattern, and space. In this way, the artwork becomes less an object to observe than an experience of surrounding.