"New Light" Shed on a New Perspective

As you may have probably heard hundreds of thousands of times, the moral of the story is, "Don't judge a book by its cover" (well, in this case, replace "book" with "artwork"). The first piece we looked at in the galleries today was called "New Light" by James Turrell. Walking into a dark little passageway towards the exhibit, I was unsure of what to expect.

When we finally got to his piece, I was brought back to that feeling I had when I first saw Yoko Ono's Sky TV. Only this time, instead of my first impression of the piece being a simple blue screen, it seemed to me that the only major difference was that Turrell's screen is red. However, what's absolutely mindbending and visually confusing about "New Light" is that it's not even a screen. No projector, no television, nothing like that at all.

I really don't want to tell you what this piece of artwork truly is, because the moment I found out after having been kept in suspense, I was just so excited and astonished. It's totally worth it to see "New Light" for yourself without letting me ruin the big and, what it seems to be under further inspection, boundless surprise.