Artist

There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.

If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there's a tradition of light in art, especially painting.

At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.

Las Vegas is about distraction.

The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.

My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.

I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.

It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.

There aren't many artists who can feel sorry for me.

Drake went through my exhibition. I did meet him in Los Angeles, and he was in the spaces that I did do there, and has some images from that.

I sell blue sky and coloured air.