This weekend me and my girlfriend decided to make a pilgrimage to the Scottish Highlands to a place called Loch Rannoch in search of James Turrell’s skyspace piece.
After some traveling and searching in the remoteness, we acquired some knowledge from the seldom locals. Luckily got a ride from a man named Gordon Brown who pointed us toward the whereabouts. We then pitched up our tent near the loch and made our way into Craiganour Estate where the Turrell piece stood hidden within a birch tree woodland.
Anxiety rising with the setting suns darkness looming we sighted the skyspace easing our doubts and suspicions of false information. Quite a momentous piece of architecture.
An experience that permits a calmness. Allows one to focus on the slow transformation of cloud formations. A stillness that circles the constant flow of nature. Whilst staring through the elliptical border I was reminded of the agar plates and again of the visual oneness between the micro and the macro. Also the notion of ordering chaos is touched upon with this piece which relates to the microscoping.
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