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I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.


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Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.



With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.



My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.



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.

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.



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 material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

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 material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.



I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.



Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.



I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.



I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.



We create the reality in which we live.

We create the reality in which we live.





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