Thursday 5 May 2011

Module 4, 5th artist: James Turrell




James Turrell was born in the year of 1943. He said, “My work is about space and the light that inhabits it. It is about how you can confront that space and plumb it. It is about your seeing, like wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.” Just like what he said, I thought his work was interesting on how it was mainly focus on lights and space. Although it is hard to understand, but at least you get to think more and look deeply as you look into the work. I sort of thought his work depends on how we see things and how we all can come up with different solutions. Is there a chance that he might want us to ask question to ourselves, such as, the object we are looking at are real? Are we not missing any important part by our ignorance on particular object? Perhaps, he might want us to think and see more closely and deeply as we see things… maybe…




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