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Turrell's project has included the study of the conditions and context
of the landscape surrounding Roden Crater: the area's geology, history,
and archeology, and its past and present inhabitants. Currently, Turrell
has fostered a rapport between the western tradition of cattle ranching
and his sincere environmental concerns to restore lands depleted by
careless ranching and threatened by modern development.
Turrell spent several years surveying the western United States for
ideal visual effects created by a natural crater bowl open to a vast
sky. His lifelong passion for aviation and the experiences of the sky
and earth from the perspective of gliders and airplanes was also critical
to his learning about visual phenomena. "My airplane is my studio,"
he says.
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