“I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.” ThinkingFeelsDifferentRealityLike YouDifferent Place Author:James Turrell
“In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we wanted it to do for other things, because again we've used light as people might be used, in the sense that we use it to light paintings. We use it to light so that we can read. We don't really pay much attention to the light itself. And so turning that and letting light and sound speak for itself is that you figure out these different relationships and rules.” PeopleIfsThinkingDifferentUseLightMightWantedUsedSpeakSoundCan DoPayAttentionFiguresPaintingDifferent Relationships Author:James Turrell
“The 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.” MeanLittlesLongMadeIdeasDifferentUseFormHouseBitsTermSpaceNovelSkyAwarenessLittle BitMeetingsTraditionalRoofOaksQuakerGunpowder Author:James Turrell
“The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky.” IfsDifferentLightSpaceSkyEdgesColour Author:James Turrell
