PLATFORM/TURRELL James Roden Crater (1960)
PLATFORM / TURRELL James Roden Crater (1960)
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Roden Crater is a gateway to the contemplation of light, time and landscape. It is the magnum opus of James Turrell’s career, a work that, besides being a monument to land art, functions as a naked eye observatory of earthly and celestial events that are both predictable and continually in flux. Constructed to last for centuries to come, Roden Crater links the physical and the ephemeral, the objective with the subjective, in a transformative sensory experience.

SUN/MOON CHAMBER

ALPHA (EAST) TUNNEL

EAST PORTAL

CRATER’S EYE

EAST SPACE

FUMAROLE SPACES

NORTH MOON SPACE

AMPHITHEATRE WITH STAGE SKYSPACE

SOUTH SPACE

NORTH SPACE

Roden Crater is a gateway to the contemplation of light, time and landscape. It is the magnum opus of James Turrell’s career, a work that, besides being a monument to land art, functions as a naked eye observatory of earthly and celestial events that are both predictable and continually in flux. Constructed to last for centuries to come, Roden Crater links the physical and the ephemeral, the objective with the subjective, in a transformative sensory experience.

SUN/MOON CHAMBER

ALPHA (EAST) TUNNEL

EAST PORTAL

CRATER’S EYE

EAST SPACE

FUMAROLE SPACES

NORTH MOON SPACE

AMPHITHEATRE WITH STAGE SKYSPACE

SOUTH SPACE

NORTH SPACE