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lanybu444 · 2 years

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Art Installations I'd Like To Visit Pt 1.

As an artist, I have found that our job is to, moreso, feel things so that we may create works to connect with others; to tell a story for the people of our times or on their behalf, and/or to simply relay the message to our audience that "Hey! I was here, and thus, so are you... Look at you looking at me." And to me, this is what makes a piece of art valuable. (To the people laughing at that urinal "sculpture" or that fan from a dead woman's apartment they placed in the LACMA, I'm glad you've found something funny, please pay us while we're here to eat.(haha I digress)) To feel ourselves we must *fill ourselves with other things that make us feel. For a lot of artists, this is art. Art is how we transmute emotions such as enjoyment or personal inquisitions, and art is what gives us or speaks most to such emotions within us; and with that, here are some of the experiential installations that I'd like to feel out. This first one is more of a quest or venture of sorts but, hear me out... ✨James Turrell's skyspaces✨

I'm so sure you've seen one before. Perhaps in a Kanye music video or clip of his Sunday Service or perhaps maybe even in a college life vlog of an acquaintance, or maybe you've found yourself coincidentally stumbling into one in the middle of the rocky mountains. If not, well, I'm sure you're bound to come across one someday, as there are over 85 of them in the world. Each is a somewhat simple or minimalistic structure, usually built from materials sourced from it's very surroundings,,, a simple room, with a roof that leaves space; for the sky.

Though the concept may seem to be lacking to some, this simplicity is what makes these installments so enthralling and allows for the maximum interaction with its subject matter and that is (arguably) the observation of the viewers' position in space, time, history and how one's senses so fluidly change perception of this based on our surroundings and what our eyes take in. Though I'm sure we were all already hyper-fixating on the matter already, Turrell's skyspaces not only allow space for the sky and it's optical changes, but space for those who experience it to freely ponder, contemplation, or to simply marvel at something, which we are not often privy to do in peace.

As a main attraction of his art Turrell has prepared a set arrangement of colors to display within the spaces further engaging with the audience's senses, making the difference in perception ever clear with every color change, set to occur at every dawn and every dusk.

Not only would I love to experience introspection, alone, in one of these Sky Spaces, but I'd love to see how such experiences change with a varying number of people and how our own respective perceptions of the same pieces of sky reflect on each other, and if we'll even make mention of it at all. I'd like to experience a skyspace in singularity, as a couple, and in community; surely it will be in-sight-ful ! Haha The closest sky spaces to me are: James Turrell's Dividing The Light at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College James Turrell's Three Gems at De Young Mueseum San Francisco James Turrell ASU Skyspace: Air Apparent

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