She almost gave up. Then she found The Lighthouse Project .
In the summer of 2023, a young visual artist named Anjali Nair stood in her cramped studio apartment in Kochi, staring at a whitewashed wall. She had just watched a video of the Notre-Dame light show in Paris—a cathedral’s facade melting into rivers of digital gold and stained glass. "Projection Mapping," she whispered. The problem? A single professional software license cost more than her monthly rent, and a formal course at a design institute in Mumbai or Bengaluru started at ₹85,000. Projection Mapping Course In India -FREE-
On the final night, Anjali didn't map a skyscraper. She mapped the side wall of the in Tripunithura (with permission from the local heritage board). Using only free software and her borrowed projector, she created a 3-minute piece: a Kathakali dancer’s face that slowly dissolved into the ocean, then into a computer chip. She almost gave up
The course she enrolled in was called "Projection Mapping for Heritage: The Indian Workshop Series," funded by a European cultural alliance and offered completely free (with a certificate) via the . She had just watched a video of the
Anjali Nair is now a freelance "visual jockey" (VJ). She does light shows for weddings in Kerala for ₹15,000 a night. She never paid for a course.