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Turrell led Booker through a series of tunnels, chambers and observatories designed to create an ethereal experience inside the dormant volcanic crater. Booker walked through the 854-foot-long Alpha tunnel, which may be one of the world’s longest refractor telescopes, projecting light through a small hole onto a massive white marble structure in the Sun/Moon chamber. They ventured into the Crater’s Eye, one of Turrell’s signature Skyspaces that provides a window to the open sky. Then there is the Fumarle Space, centered around a large glass bowl where visitors dip their heads in the water so they can hear radio waves emitted by planets and stars that are converted into sound by a transducer. “I’m sure you’ve seen pictures of it, but it’s something you’ve got to experience in person to get the full effect,” Booker says. “It’s a masterpiece.”

New York Times

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