Model "Roden Crater"

James Turrell ’s works can be perceived as experimental arrangements and realms of experience to explore the nature of light, space, and time. His works provide unusual perceptual experiences which often disable the ability to estimate distances. Meditative spaces and zones are created where usual perception patterns and seeing habits cannot provide any insight. Turrell’s most extensive project was realized in Arizona where he found the perfect place for it: an extinct volcano on the border of the Painted Desert. The work Roden Crater is capable of providing unexpected experiences in its precisely created space and tunnel—from the physically tangible curvature of the sky to the examination of complex astronomic events.