Response to James Turrell

Last weekend I went to the ICA to see James Turrell's work at the ICA. His piece was in a separate room in one of the galleries. The piece was a rectangle of a solid shade of red light. From a distance the light looked as if it was being projected onto a wall, or a solid red rectangle moutned onto the wall; nothing too impressive. But when I got closer, I realized that the light was filling a 3-D space. It was interesting seeing the red light as a solid rectangle mounted onto a wall, and then getting close to it and realizing it was something you could put your hands through. Actually being able to see James' Turrell's work at the ICA allowed me to appreciate his work a lot more than I had before.b