To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.
From James Turrell
I am involved in the architecture of space.
I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.
There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.
I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.
In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's crisp but hard, a side-raking light that can be revealing but doesn't have the softness that maritime air has.
I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.
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