An afterimage is a visual sensation—often a bright light or a color—that lingers after the original stimulus has disappeared. It is that fleeting remnant that lingers behind your eyes, like an echo of what you have just seen.

But what happens when those afterimages pile up? When too many linger behind your eyelids at once, they merge into an amalgam of impressions. A new, non-linear dimension emerges in which opposites lose their sharpness and merge into a single interwoven landscape. Light and dark, color and emptiness: they no longer stand in opposition to one another, but exist side by side and intertwined.

For composition student Mateusz Godlewski, this material served as the starting point for an intriguing One Minute Symphony titled After-images. You can hear the result at the concert on Friday , April Friday , at Amare in The Hague.