Light? Why light? What is light?
It has been six years since I got the 'click' to this extraordinary thing.
Back then, when I was studying Product Design, I remember it was my second year, I found a little book titled 'Light design now!' at the local bookstore. That was my first sight to Lighting Design. Luminaire Design precisely at that time. Suddenly, my heart was beating fast when I read the book, page by page. This is it. I found it, I said to myself.
Light has something different. It has long long story with us as human, even since before any product was invented. It is an (intangible) element that is almost impossible for us to live without.
Since then, almost all my assignments I have done with light. I felt like a fanatic. But I didn't care, because this is the best way to learn my interest further. From a small reading light (material study with acrylic glass), resin with fluorescent pigment powder, helmet, jewelry, table lamp, desk lamp, floor lamp, pendant lamp, wall lamp, to an interactive balancing board as my graduation project.
My internships had given me a priceless experience and huge impact to my thought about lighting design. Luminaire design based on market research in Japan, lighting design plan by projects, and conceptual luminaire design in Germany. Those all taught me how wide light could be approached. I went to exhibition 'Liberation of Light' in Eindhoven on 2010. It was just amazing to see various possibilities of light! Interactive installations, games, fashion design, home decorations, agriculture, poetic sculpture, and many more. The exhibition encouraged me to explore further about light, more than just functional as a tool for vision.
Then, I continued my study in Architectural Lighting Design, Wismar, Germany. Here I learned another thing, another side of lighting design. How light define the space, how light influences our body, how light plays as identity of the place, how light could be easily controlled by technology, how light and material are strongly engaged, and by installation & experiments I did with material and space, I learned how light affects perception and touches its new role in human experience.
Light doesn't only allow us to see. It has a strong and deep relationship with us as human. Don't you feel it? If you put more attention to light, more conscious about light, any detail of it, even though only your shadow on the ground, you will feel more blessed and thankful in life.
Eindhoven, Lichtstad, 2014
in deadline of my thesis :P