Turrell frequently uses colored
light to define
and defy architectural
space, producing unease within the body
and jolting viewers into reexamining their physical relationship with
space.
They, you generic, believe in impossible things: that carbon dioxide can trap heat
and defy gravity, that our atmosphere is empty
space, that there is no Water Cycle, that there is no rain in the Carbon Life Cycle, that visible
light can heat water, that no heat from the Sun reaches us — except they don't know what they believe is impossible because most of the time they have no idea of what they're really saying..