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• Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.
• My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light…
• I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it…
• In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not…
• Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just…
• My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
• The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that…
• Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is…
• I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.
• I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is…
• I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in…
• Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence…

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