We humans evolved in daylight. One key to understanding natural light and its effect on our neuropsychological system is to understand that sun light is always changing, always moving, no matter how imperceptibly. 

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To get at the right combination of color and light, describe the activity:

"I want my studio to be filled with light that mimics Northern daylight at noon."
"I want my makeup lighting to match what I'll look like under candle light."
"I want my room to feel like I am inside a rose."
"I want my painting lit like the light the painting was made under"

Wittgenstein says, "We could paint semi darkness in semi-darkness and the ‘right lighting” of a picture could be semi darkness…"

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I don’t think about light so much. We don’t see light; we see reflections on surfaces, on skin. 

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I want you to read something from 1912, by Louis Bell in “The Art of Illumination”: “In electric lighting the most strenuous efforts are constantly being made to improve the efficiency of the incandescent lamp by a few percent… Yet in lighting generally and domestic lighting in particular, a little skill and tact in use of the lights we now have can effect an economy far greater than all the material improvements of the last years…”

For most of history, providing lighting for the home has been a filthy, expensive, dangerous business which cost us dearly in terms of time and labor and even (when fire was involved as it nearly always was) our lives.

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Burns for hours, stays moist, and outdoors the flame is protected from the winds…
And, if you get hungry, you can roast and eat the turnip.

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