Pani still projection. Photo James HH Morgan
04 THE VOLUME OF LIGHT - + Sensation + Immersion Mesmerising affect of light with the space Ways of using the medium of light to affect our perception of spaces and architecture “Poets will help us to discover within ourselves such joy in looking that sometimes, in the presence of a perfectly familiar object, we experience an extension of our intimate space.” Gaston Bachelard, the Poetics of Space (Boston; Beacon Press, 1964) p199 Looking towards ways of reaching a better understanding of our natural and urban surroundings The feeling a space gives us Light as a material to deconstruct architecture The dematerialization of the object Artists political statements about value and worth Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone, 1973 Anthony McCall, Solid Light, 2016 Could be perceived as minimalist sculpture Object both abstract and material Light and Space movement from southern California in the 1960s and 1970s - developments NASA Changed the way we see us, the planet, the bigger picture The study of light in its purest form 'light as an architecture of perception' James Turrell, in James Turrell: A Retrospective / National Gallery of Australia, exhibition catalogue, 2014, p17 Light as a space lived, like entering into a painting How / why was light used in ancient architectural monuments? The containment and observation of light - Rome’s Pantheon the Pyramids of Egypt and Mexico