OBS-016
Field Notes on Color and Stillness
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James Turrell — A Room Shaped by Light
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Atlas Index:
OBS-016
Origin:
Los Angeles, USA
Era:
Contemporary
Themes / Lineage:
light-and-space-architecture-of-perception
Field Notes:
light defining spatial perception
Quiet Modernism appears here as space defined through controlled illumination.

James Turrell — A Room Shaped by Light

Field Notes on Color and Stillness

Light defines enclosure.

Surfaces recede.

Space is held by illumination.

What holds the space?
A room is usually defined by walls and edges, yet material enclosure recedes. Light alone separates one zone from another. What continues is space shaped without physical boundary.

A room is usually defined by walls and edges, yet material enclosure recedes.

Light alone separates one zone from another.

What continues is space shaped without physical boundary.

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Artist Overview

James Turrell
Light as architecture

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