First off, I did not Photoshop this together.  It's a straight film shot.  This is a 2 dollar plastic magnifier sitting over a pair of Ray-Bans, sitting on brushed Aluminum.   You can get the same effect of a light pattern if you get a magnifier and look at it at an extreme angle which should hopefully convince everybody that I didn't do this in Photoshop.

        I started playing around with this magnifier, proping it up by putting objects under it which produced some interesting light patterns, which to the naked eye were much more defined than you see here as the Turner Reich renders these light patterns in a much softer way. 

        Getting the magnifer at a certain angle to the light,  and looking through the Turner Reich, the light pattern looked like something mystical to me and I thought of what I read about 'Indra's Net', thus the name of the shot.  I wanted to inject the human element into the idea, so I thought of glasses which is what folks use to examine things.   I wasn't about to putting reading glasses under the magnifier to prop it up, so I used my daughter's Ray-Bans.

        The illusion of the 'road of light' trailing off into the background under the glasses was a surprise to me because the glasses are under the magnifier, and the light pattern is along the fresnel pattern of the magnifier which sits over the glasses, so it's the exact opposite of what it looks like.   The glasses have a certain texture because they're sitting under the magnifier.

        I didn't know what the hell to use for an exposure, so I used 'one thousand one, one thousand two, and fired the shutter.   The copy of this image on my website looks different becuase I simply 'dragged and dropped' this smaller image onto a larger black background and left it at that.