The Library of Babel

2010-08-31T20:51:00.000-07:00

Analysis of the "Norway Spiral"

2010-08-31T20:44:00.000-07:00

LAND FALL I

2010-07-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

Jan Smith: Graveyard of Ships

2010-04-08T01:13:00.000-07:00

TOUR 2010

2010-04-08T01:00:00.000-07:00

WikiLeaks

2010-04-08T00:28:00.000-07:00

Transborder Immigrant Tool

2010-04-08T00:24:00.000-07:00

Sigils in Sound

2010-04-06T14:48:00.000-07:00

American Stonehenge

2010-04-06T14:45:00.000-07:00

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

Cydonia, Mars / 12th Planet

2009-11-26T12:22:00.000-08:00

God Machine

2009-09-27T15:26:00.000-07:00

Agartha : The Hollow Earth

2009-09-27T15:22:00.001-07:00

Sefer Raziel HaMalakh

2009-09-27T15:18:00.000-07:00

Roden Crater, Light Sculpture Extraordinaire

2009-09-27T15:10:00.000-07:00

TWO years ago, not long after he turned 45, Ed Sweeney made a list of things to do before he died. Take his wife to Machu Picchu. Take his young son to see the space shuttle launch. And, what is proving to be most challenging, visit the Roden Crater, an extinct volcano northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz., that James Turrell has been transforming into a work of perceptual and celestial art since the late 1970s.

A corporate pilot who lives near Los Angeles, Mr. Sweeney often flies over the volcano field near Flagstaff en route to Florida or Texas. He believes he has seen the Roden Crater from the air. He has followed Mr. Turrell’s work for several years, he said, and was moved by a recent exhibition in London. But he is having a hard time getting in the crater’s front door.

In July Mr. Sweeney stopped in Flagstaff while on a road trip to Santa Fe, N.M. He placed an ad on craigslist.org that said: “Anybody know Jim Turrell or someone who can get access to his crater?? It’s on my list of 20 things to do before I die.”

He received a handful of responses, none particularly helpful. Someone sent back-road directions, which he didn’t want to use. “I wanted some sort of approval before I stumbled onto the land,” he said. Eventually he visited the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce, which gave him the number of the Skystone Foundation, which administers Mr. Turrell’s crater project...

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