Ganzfeld

Breathing Light, truly sums up Turrell's art, a perfect title for a work of art that allows you to do just that, to experience colour in a way in which it has never been done before. This work is much more than just the viewer looking at it; instead, with this work you become so entirely immersed in the colour that you feel as though it's in the air, you can see, feel, taste and breath the colour. The immersion takes the viewer to a place, when standing in the installation,where they are faced with what seems like infinite light and colour. The room is designed to appear seamless, as though there are no walls and your brain begins to attempt to work out where the colour and light is coming from - this is part of the magic of the work and truly realises the Ganzfeld Effect.  

The ganzfeld effect (from German for “complete field”) or perceptual deprivation, is a phenomenon of perception caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field. The effect is the result of the brain amplifying neural noise in order to look for the missing visual signals.

Here you see people carrying out their own versions of the ganzfeld experiment, without having to build a massive large scale room installation! By filling the ears with the sound of white noise and using a cut in half ping-pong ball taped over the eyes, you then shine the light across your face once comfortable.