As waves approach the coast they are also refracted.
Light waves can even be refracted when they move from hot air into colder air.
Light from an arc lamp was so directed that only that part reached the spectroscope which fell upon the flame of the burner at grazing incidence, and was thereby refracted.
His surfaces might be worked to display an almost painterly plane that suggests refracted light, with a remarkable range of color.
But in Kinch's work, wider questions of oppression and ideology are in fact refracted through the lens of cultural particularity.