James Turrell - Goldstein Skyspace/Roden Crater Project from Rindermulch on Vimeo.

"Turrell's sky spaces are beautiful and baffling. The eye loses its bearing, trying to balance the light as it changes inside and out."

"Roden crater has been crafted with the precision of an optical instrument. When it's eventually finished, at a cost of around 40 Million dollars, and much blood sweat and tears, it will consist of a network of tunnels, connecting 9 chambers and sky spaces, all of them precisely orientated so that they can receive and channel light from the sun, the moon and the stars. But Roden Crater is much more than just a naked eye observatory, it's a temple dedicated to light, and to our perception of light, and James Turrell presides over it like a high priest."

"Some artists are like narrow beams of light, precise and focused. James Turrell is like the sun, expansive and all embrasive. In the hour or so it took us to get to Roden Crater we touched on aeronautics, biology, native american history, geology, meteorology, volcanology, astronomy, the price of real estate, the nature of perception and how many acres you need to raise one black angus steer. Turrell has had to master all of these disciplines, up to and including running a 50,000 acre cattle ranch in his life long persuit of light, which all began as a child, when he pierced the curtains in his bedroom to recreate the star patterns that he'd seen in the night sky..
..and this all began when you were a child, this interest, this passion for light?"
"oh yes, every child has that, some grow out of it, some of us just stay in the same place forever more.. I was fascinated with light."