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If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unrembered seasons? If this indeed be the hour in which I lift up my lantern, it is not my flame that shall burn therein. Empty and dark shall I raise my lantern, And the guardian of the night shall fill it with oil and he shall light it also. Kahlil Gibran (Prophet)
Light.....the invisible form, revealing all other forms and creating another form we call shadow. Magic we simply call light surrounds us and our very existence in every moment of our life. As Loius Khan said: „All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material cast a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.“ There are moments in life that seems so unimportant at the time when they are actually happening, but the impact of those moments last a lifetime. I remember clearly the moment when „light happened to me“. When I was about 12 my room was on the ground floor in my family home in Pula Croatia. I already had red painted fluorescent tubes under the bed and Edison bulb under the table cloth. I would create my own scenes and enjoy those moments alone, actually dreaming with my eyes opened, laying on the floor and creating pictures in my head that projected the distance future. I always knew that my world will gravitate around architecture but did not know that it will take a form of a light. ????
It was back in 1987 when I entered Eduardo s lighting showroom where the door of the new bright world opened the up for me. I was 25 at the time and I lived in NYC for a year by then. The reasons why he hired me remain a mystery to me, but soon we both realized that it was a choice that changes both of our lives forever. And that is how I opened my eyes and began to „see“the light. Eduardo is still a great friend, and one of those people that paved the way with light for me. At about the same time there where alos pople who strongly influenced my life who i never actualy met. It is mr.Earl Nightingale who made me understand that i am solely resposible for my present and my future simply putting in one magic word „attitude“, and dr.Wayne W. Dyer who made me believe that „there is no way to happiness -----hapiness is the way“ . The story is long, and I may tell it in some other occasion. Today, 22 years later I have so many stories to tell. I am definitely not one of those people that live blissfully ignorant of passion. Passion is the strongest ingredient of my existence and makes part of every venue I took in life. I believe that as the world technologically „progresses“the emotional contest
is always going to be the key and that is why I use all the technology available today as my brush that paints light on the black canvas of the night. Light is not turned on for architecture, for streets or historic buildings; it is for the people that live in that space. As we create more and more norms, standards, regulations which are mostly numeric, we lock ourselves in the quantitative part of our profession and the creative, free spirited, norm bending approach, sometimes is not widely excepted. Maybe people by our nature fear the different or whatever is beyond standard and simply feel safe within the boundaries of norms and standards. The big picture for me is different. It been said too many times that lighting design is both art and science. It is truth. It is the synergy of technology, scientific discoveries and inspiration of an artist that brings the truth emotional impact in those who lives in the lighted space or view the object. We tend to notice beautiful sunsets and purposely go on the sea shore to enjoy it. But we rarely walk inside the building to enjoy impressive lighting scenarios. In theaters it is „normal“ not to notice the great effort a lighting designer has done because it is expected and most people don’t even think about it. Our homes and offices should create the similar emotional impact at night. Creating scenes of light that relax us, allows comfortable reading while other are watching
TV or eating. Enable us to perceive the painting on the wall or sculpture as the light source. Having the possibility to dimm or turn on the light above our desk in the office and have individual control over light in our working environment. Relationship between intensiti, direction and clor determines the form of the oject within the space which is also dependent on light. It is the light that becomes matter, when it finishes being light. All matter is light.Light is the source of being.LOUIS KAHN The majority of people think of lighting as purely technical and solely functional discipline with its main function to able us to see after sunset. In recent years lighting specialist and other scientific society discovered a considerable effect of artificial lighting of physical and mental well being of all living thinks. In the case of human beings, light has considerable effect on our emotions. Space is annulled by darkness. If light is eliminated the emotive content of space disappears (Sigfried Giedion). Following such strong statement it is simply clear that our