I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
From James Turrell
One way to understand light in the ocean of air is by flying it. Life in the air is an extension of perceiving.
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.
Art history is littered with work that involves light.
I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.
There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.
I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.
We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.
I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.
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