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At the art academy in Maastricht, Tamar Frank said she could not make what she wanted with brush and paint. That's why she started experimenting with light. That proved to suit her better. It has become her medium par excellence. For exhibition spaces or at special outdoor locations, she makes temporary light installations. In addition, with her studio Lightspace, she regularly realises permanent monumental light work in and around buildings all over the world. Clients are construction companies and governments.

The project developer BAM was the client for the light art work in The Hague. This construction company realised the restructuring of the old building of the former Ministry of VROM. The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was responsible for the design. Since late 2017, the renovated building has housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and the head offices of the IND and the COA.

For the subway beneath this new office complex, Frank devised a work of light art about eight metres high. Synchronous with the cycle of the sun and the moon, the light changes colour. During the day, the light programme follows the rise of the sun, the day itself and twilight. Once dark, the natural daytime tones are transformed into contrasting bright colours. This cycle is broken every day at moonrise with a light programme in different shades of purple. The work of light seems to break through the high, black back wall of the passage. As if a heavenly space were present behind it.

What I love about light is that it affects everything," Frank said in an interview with the kfHeinfonds in 2017. "I can take over a space and bend it to my will, so that people experience something special." Caelesti lumine also does this in the subway. Here you experience heavenly light.