The work in A Subtle Kind of Beyond consists of visual constructions born out of my visits to several different energy vortices. The sites I photographed are in Sedona, Ojai, Mount Shasta, Joshua Tree, and at the Oregon Vortex. Colored gels, or filters, interrupt the landscape photographs and serve as representation of the presence of a vortex, as well as a screen through which one views the landscape. I layered the gels over the photographs to visualize a proposed form of how the energy vortex might appear. These colored layers point toward limitations in our perception and propose what might exist beyond our immediate understanding of being present in a physical location.