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| - Part Deux to our Sunday Rendez-Vous:
We took the monorail between casinos to the The Shops at Crystals outside the ARIA Resort & Casino. No, not to shop, rather uncover a secret above the consumerist chaos. Traveling as though through the twilight zone, we time-warped out of the Louis Vuitton @ City Center, beyond all earthly placations into a hypnotic calm of sensory relaxation.
James Turrell Exhibit At Louis Vuitton is home to Akhob, a unique installation that creates a distinction between the overabundance of modern corporate consumerism & the distilled sophistication of prismatic light. The world & its walls appear to melt away as the primary colors move through gradiation from one intense extreme of the spectrum to soft, radiant rays.
Egyptian for "pure water", Akhob is a sound chamber that produces the illusion of ganzfeld effect, an altered state of body, mind, and consciousness produced by gazing into an immersive color field. James Turrell's exhibition creates a sensation of detachment as though floating free of time, space, and material, as though absorbed within a transcendent meditative nature. Life and art stripped down to its core beauty, scientific principles, and quintessential character -- color.
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