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I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

James Turrell

James Turrell

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We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.
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Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
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