LACMA

Aka...

 Lights Are Cooler than Most Art

haha. So Easter weekend I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with mother dearest. I found some interesting light usage! Light and art, man. Bffs. PB&J. Mac & Cheese. food.

The first art-light combo I saw was "Miracle Mile" by Robert Irwin. It's a pretty arrangement of neon-y fixtures…these lights do not need a filament! (That’s 50% a guess). Hey they look cool! Team USA.

But the exhibit that takes the cake was part of the James Turrell exhibit. There were two dark rooms. Dark is not even good enough! Like fully engulfed in blackness. I have never had a room's lack of light put me in such a position of hopelessness and loneliness! 

So you walk down a pitch black hall…and by walk I mean shuffle slowly as your eyes are straining to see the outline of some stranger in front of you because they are your only hope of survival as you cannot see your hand in front of your face let alone where you’re stepping or where the wall is or where the floor is! Eventually you round the corner into what seems to be a large room…with some faint light in front of you.

And that’s it. But for something so simple, it was very intriguing. and very terrifying! 

I turned around to try and leave…that was a mistake. I COULDN’T SEE ANYTHING. Like when you’re outside and you walk into a dark theatre and it’s such a struggle because you are blind. then multiply that by 45.

I walked so slow and so scared because I had no sense of what was in front of me, beside me, or what was behind me except for some faint light and the voices of people that just became obstacles because i didn't want to run into them!

But don’t worry y’all, I finally found a wall and slid to my escape.

This picture is from the second room, which was MORE LIT than the first. All I had was an iphone so it's kinda hard to see what's up...but the lights were in frame-like rectangles. The head outline is my mother. I’m such an artsy photographer guys.