Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.

Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.