"McCall's haze is not atmospheric decoration but an ethical condition, enforcing a mode of relation grounded in both partiality and restraint. By preventing total clarity, it protects the work, and by extension, the viewer, from overdetermination. What matters here—and the word bears its full weight—is not simply what is physically present, but what is permitted to count. Visibility resists neutrality because matter is never neutral; the mist determines what can be seen, how edges form, where the beam gains density or dissipates. Light does not transcend its material conditions; it remains bound to air, dust, and movement."