If ever there was an artist who tests the limits of the camera and what it can capture, it’s New Hope resident Christopher Kennedy. What began as a childhood impulse to simply photograph visual oddities grew into what has become “photo luminism,” a personally coined term describing the use of electric light as a sort of paintbrush on the camera’s sensor. Stretching and bending artificial light over long exposures and intentional camera movement creates his abstract images. The collection, two years in the making, consists of two print mediums. Most striking are the large aluminum canvases. Their reflective property “pushes” the light beyond the surface, giving it a 3D effect. Other works are printed on archival paper, which absorbs and pulls the colors inward, creating a deep, saturated look. His latest experiment is using and controlling natural light rather than artificial. Much of Bucks County has inspired his captures, but of late his muse has been the treescapes outside his rural New Hope cottage. Kennedy’s profession for many years dealt with music and sound editing in Hollywood, on projects including “A Chorus Line,” “The Little Shop of Horrors” and the Academy Award-winning score for “Finding Neverland.” Many of his light abstractions are strikingly reminiscent of sound and the waves they create.