Tracing The Light
This project focuses on sunlight as a central medium, using the theoretical frameworks of phenomenology, emotional geography, and poetic space to explore how light shapes spatial perception and emotional shifts. In the typically overcast winters of the UK, the rarity and brevity of sunlight heightened my sensitivity to its emotional impacts. Through interviews and surveys, I examined how sunlight affects focus, relaxation, and emotional fluctuations. Participants’ emotional experiences were transformed into visual symbols and a language of color to depict diverse emotional states. The project integrates text and painting to document the emotional responses and reflections triggered by sunlight’s flow, while capturing the subtle changes in spatial character brought by light through artistic renderings. Additionally, sunlight’s trajectories and emotional nuances were materialized into three-dimensional installations, using metal mesh and reflective materials to embody the transparency, fluidity, and fleeting nature of light and time. This project seeks to evoke emotional resonance through the language of light, inviting viewers to reexamine the profound connections between space, time, and their inner worlds.
