In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk about spiritual experiences using the vocabulary of light: Saul on the road to Damascus, near-death experiences, samadhi or the light-filled void of Buddhist enlightenment.
From James Turrell
I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.
I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.
I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.
We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.
If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.
I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.
I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.
I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture - it's a town of entertainment.
I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.
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