"The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting,……" — James Turrell
"The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what I started with as an idea. But then making this in terms of the sizing and the use that was asked for by Live Oak Meeting- I mean it's a very traditional form, except it's convertible. The top opens, and it makes a sky space where sky is really brought down to you; your awareness of it is made quite different. It was a little bit of a novel idea, that it's a roof that opens."
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27 Quotes by James Turrell
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I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.
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I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from…
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We create the reality in which we live.
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