Brain dump of things I want to learn more about (WIP):

• Visual Arts:

  • Painting: Luminism, chiaroscuro.

  • Photography

    • Light-Painting.

  • Light Art / Lumia / Light and Space.

• Design Arts:

  • Architectural lighting.

    • Lighting in religious architecture, e.g. mosque lamps.

  • Interior light design.

• Performing Arts:

  • Stage lighting for theatre, opera, music, etc.

    • Lasers.

  • Shadow Puppetry / Shadow Play.

  • Fire Dance / Fire Twirling / Fire Performance.

• Aesthetics of Nature: the Sun, the Moon, lighting in Gardens.

• Symbolism, Metaphor, Allegory involving light across the arts (including literature and religious texts): candles, lamps/lanterns, halos, luminous clouds, .

• The opposite of light in art: darkness, shadow, the night.