Perspectives define aesthetics.

A lighting scheme that worked - the right ambience, the right hierarchy, the right spatial character - gets carried into a larger space, and something is off. The fixtures are the same. The colour temperature hasn't changed. The layout logic followed the same rationale. And yet the space doesn't perform the way the original did.

A standard lighting audit returns clean results, and nobody asks a follow-up question. Fixture counts match. Wattage is within tolerance. Lumen output is where the spec says it should be. The report is filed, the client is satisfied - yet, the space’s lighting design continues to underperform in ways the audit was never designed to detect. This is not a failure of execution; it is a failure of the question being asked.