I could easily figure out that James Turrell focuses his energy on working with light in an artistic way. It is kind of a combination of physics and astronomy with art. I liked the idea of certain rooms in his crater channeling light from distant stars. He called this "old light" because it came from stars so far away that it may have taken hundreds of years for the photons to meet our eyes. That's a pretty awesome concept. In his Quaker meeting house, he designed the roof so that "the sky is brought down to you." It illustrates his concept of what his grandmother may have meant when she said they were going inside to greet the light. He works it into the physical sense by making the sky-light, but also demonstrates the spiritual sense by the location. A house of worship is a place to meet the Lord, who many call the Light.
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