To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.
James TurrellIt was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.
James TurrellWe think of color as a thing that weโre receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that itโs possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously donโt change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision.
James TurrellThe Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what I started with as an idea. But then making this in terms of the sizing and the use that was asked for by Live Oak Meeting- I mean it's a very traditional form, except it's convertible. The top opens, and it makes a sky space where sky is really brought down to you; your awareness of it is made quite different. It was a little bit of a novel idea, that it's a roof that opens.
James Turrell