LUMEN

LUMEN

LUMEN moves between emotion and experience on one hand, and science and structure on the other. As a feeling-oriented person, I am guided by light, atmosphere, and the intensity of the moment, while simultaneously having a strong need for control. Structure, analysis, and clarity provide stability and calm.

The work brings these two worlds together. Light represents the intuitive, changeable, and uncontrollable; rigid lines and blocks embody order and precision. This creates a tension between chaos and structure, letting go and taking control, feeling and reason.

LUMEN consists of a white and a black room with interactive light blocks and a soundscape that responds to the viewer’s movements. In the black room, the viewer controls the intensity by moving closer or farther away; in the white room, the color shifts from blue to red. Each experience is unique, making the viewer a co-creator of the work.

The title refers to light or a beam of light, and scientifically, to the total amount of visible light emitted by a source per unit of time; a metaphor for the interplay between feeling, experience, and understanding.