How light guides perception, evokes emotion,
carries meaning, and stores memory
— a research framework across stage, architecture and installation.

Light tells stories.
It guides, touches, remembers.
It shapes spaces — and the stories that unfold within them.

Narrative Lighting is my research on light as a medium of narration: how it guides perception, evokes emotion, carries meaning, and stores memory. Light is understood not as a tool, but as a language — a living vocabulary of direction, colour, rhythm, and atmosphere.

Drawing from narratology, semiotics, and environmental psychology, the work outlines four dimensions through which light can narrate: Directional (guiding attention), Emotional (shaping affect and atmosphere), Signifier (carrying symbolic or cultural meaning), and Memory (linking perception to recollection). Together, these dimensions frame light as an active agent of storytelling across stage, architecture, installation, and everyday space.

Developed during my Master’s in Architectural Lighting Design at Wismar University (2022) and presented at the International Light Symposium, Kongsberg (Norway, 2024), Narrative Lighting invites us to perceive illumination as more than visibility — as the subtle art of meaning in space.