Occupation: Artist Birth: May 6, 1943
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 outs….
We create the reality in which we live..
Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question..
We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of l….
I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire..
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . ….
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditio….
Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you..
It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that'….
I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a r….
I always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light infuses the dream, the way the atmosphere….
We eat light, drink it in through our skins.
My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My materi….
Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation..
I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your seeing than it is ….
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids..
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 sh….
I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises..
We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it’s possible to change the color of the….
With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking..
We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about….