With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.
James TurrellI like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.
James TurrellI wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.
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