photograph and text by TODD COLE
Light is a primal intoxicant. Many artists recognize this and choose light as their medium. Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, and James Turrell are among my favorites. Turrell created his epic work, Roden Crater, at the edge of the Painted Desert in Arizona. The artist set out to make visitors to this work physically aware that light is the basis of energy, of existence itself, and that light originates from stars like our sun and is reflected by the moon and other celestial bodies. Turrell’s Roden Crater conveys the physicality of light, revealing its central creative force.
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night pictures
night pictures by Olivier Zahm with a portfolio by Ron Galella
by Olivier Zahm
by Alex Israel
by Rachel Chandler
Noritoshi Hirakawa
by Sabine Heller
by Alex Israel
by Olivier Zahm
by Matt Sweeney
by Kazumi Asamura Hayashi
by Olivier Zahm
by Marcelo krasilcic
by Dominique Isserman
by Stacey Mark
by Camille Bidault Waddington
by Olivier Zahm
by Martien Mulder
by Steven Klein
by Magnus Unnar
by Theo Wenner
by Olivier Zahm
by Glenn O'Brien
by Lola Schnabel
by Olivier Amsellem