| Tyler Meadows Davis Sculptor |
The work of artist James Turrell has influenced my work a great deal. I first encountered it as an
undergraduate when I had the opportunity to hear him lecture as a visiting artist. During my course work as a
graduate student at Brigham Young University, much of my research surrounded Turrell’s work and his
fascination with light. Throughout the development of the Accumulation series, I have often returned to
something the artist said as part of an interview on the PBS series Art: 21 Art in the Twenty First Century:
Most spiritual experiences…are described with a vocabulary of light...This idea…to
find that light within, literally, as well as figuratively, was something that really
propelled me at the time. Art:21, Artists. Public Broadcasting Service. 15 Feb. 2006. http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/index.html
Fueled by an interest in ideas surrounding light and spirituality, I am drawn to the translucency and visual
simplicity of glass. This material, with such close ties to light, starkly contradicts the rough, oxidized steel
surfaces setting up a metaphorical dichotomy relative to the precarious balance, which exists between our
own immortal and mortal components.
| Glass |