I wanted to know if light could tell a story. Not by revealing objects or highlighting something else, but by being the story itself. Could it guide people through space without signs or words, without sound or objects? Just light and darkness. That question became the starting point for my thesis. I designed an experiment where visitors entered a completely dark room, not knowing what to expect. Inside, they encountered a series of light-based scenarios that explored how movement, time, perception, and emotion could be shaped using only light.
In order to design this experiment, I started by gathering insights from research and case studies. I began to notice a pattern. Some of the most powerful spatial experiences seemed to work by triggering a sense of time, perception, emotion, or movement. These elements could connect stories to space, even without the use of words. That made me think about light differently. What if it had a grammar? What if its characteristics could work like the structure of a language? I decided to treat them that way and use them as tools to shape the experiment.
