(from “made light” to “inner light” to “aware light”)
Once, light was a gift from the heavens.
It came from sun, candles, stars—and faith.
Its meaning was sacred: God is Light,
and humanity merely reflected it like a mirror.
Then the 20th century lit its own sun—
the electric lamp.
From that moment, light ceased to be purely celestial;
it became made, governable, engineered.
The century began to believe that humanity itself carries light,
and an aesthetic rose to meet that belief—Art Deco.
Geometry and gold, rays and halos,
elegant figures glowing from within—
a new iconography for an age of Reason.
Art Deco was more than a style;
it was a devotion to light as the new divinity.
Skyscrapers became temples, halos became spotlights,