The work that Tang Yau Hoong does is fascinating and beautiful to me. Especially the image above. 

Lights are a very “feeling” thing I’ve found. I have always been aware of how light can evoke emotion, but I didn’t completely understand this experience until it was my job to create it for other people without their realizing it. 

That is the cool thing about lighting and light design. Most people in buildings, but especially in performances (both on stage and on screen), are wholly unaware of the manipulations involving lights that designers create in order to make people feel an emotion. Those people just have the feelings but don’t correlate it with the light settings. Technically, that’s the goal. Or at least, that is my goal when I’m designing lights. 

Though, I must admit sometimes designing light elements for the sake of actually noticing them is just as fun. And is much less of an emotional thing as it is an experiential thing. I’ll file this under, a different aspect of lighting design, because, well, it is. 

Anyhow, this artist does a great job of capturing both the feelings I was talking about, but also capturing the elements of fun, and just because. Either way. I like what he’s done.