Showing posts with label james turrell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label james turrell. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2010

Lighting as Witchery

"MAGIC FOUNTAIN AT PARIS SHOWING THE WITCHERY OF MODERN LIGHTING" - from Great Inventions and their Inventors. John A. Maloney. University of Knowledge, Inc. Chicago,1938

Magic Fountain of Montjuic, Barcelona

James Turrell - Skyspace (Chicago)

http://www.intp-worldsource.com/fountains.html

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Sunday evening list

:Michael's:
3 bags Buffalo Snow iridescent garland - $.59/ea
Creatology owl wooden puzzle - $3.00
round mirror 7" - $1.99
round mirror 12" - $3.99
2 packages of 5 round mirrors 3" - free/ea
large clear diamond (glass) - free
photo of faux wilderness scene with animal figures [1]
:World Market:
small round wood knob - free
:Whole Foods:
Bel Canto Espresso beans - $7.85
:Home Depot:
100W large red flood light - $.82
:walking between Home Depot and 7eleven:
photo of 2 crushed crushes [2] and [3]
:7eleven:
6 pack of 16ox Old Style - $5.69

[1] toy animals placed on "sceneArama" display

[2] found on 12th Pl. near Jefferson St.

[3] found under the James Turrell piece at the corner of Roosevelt St. and Halsted St.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Skyspace

Finished my whiskey and ginger ale, put on my flannel, and took my umbrella from the studio out into the rain. It was dusk and the south end of the sky was full heavy blue. As I passed James Turrell's, Skyspace I noticed the water was turned on. The small water falls were doing battle with the weather. This piece, turquoise and stucco - a bit of transplanted southwest on a busy Chicago intersection - was finally starting to do it's thing. The sound of the fountain and jets of water blended the traffic: hurrying and turning on the flooded road. I left and the flow stuck with me as the passing tires meeting the wet pavement were influenced and driven by a display of light; obvious but fleeting, like the UFOs over Marfa.

all photos of Skyspace and the street near it were taken with my camera phone