James Turrell’s first experiment with light occurred when he was a young boy growing up in Los Angeles in the 1940s. “Probably as a result of the air attack back in 1942, an edict had been issued for all houses [in Los Angeles] to place blackout shades over the windows at night,” he recalls. “When I was six years old, in order to assert my own presence in the room, I took a pin or needle to these curtains and pierced them to make star patterns and the constellations …hellip;

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