Bowen Yang

I feel like 'SNL' is this kind of fixed, refractive prism. And whatever comes through it is just whatever - is just the absurdity of what's going on in the world or what people are saying or what's not being said.

Refractive relates to how objects can appear altered when viewed through different materials.

Visible Change

Refractive changes direction of light, but doesn't alter colors, like prisms do.

Not Color Change

Used in scientific contexts, often discussing lenses, glasses or transparent materials.

Physics Context

In optometry, refractive concerns correcting vision, like with lenses or surgery.

Vision Correction

Refractive is used by eye doctors to describe how well eyes focus light.

Medical Term

Refractive is specific to light and doesn't refer to sound or other waves.

Specific to Light

 Today, glasses can help millions of people with poor vision due to uncorrected refractive errors. The key to understanding what that means lies with the term refraction, the ability of a transparent medium, like glass, water,

How do glasses help us...

 might be refractive to our desires. A space that doesn't always follow us like a dog that has been trained to follow us, but moves ahead into directions of demonstrating other possibilities, other experiences,