Untitled 1971

Larry Bell made this installation sometime in his career with coated glass. It is his signature material, allowing him to explore issues of light, reflection, and space. I imagine Bell in the studio with his team, meticulously planning and executing the placement of each glass panel. What was he thinking? How to achieve the perfect balance between transparency and opacity, between presence and absence? I feel as though the forms are an invitation to slow down and pay attention to the subtle shifts in perception. Bell's surfaces remind me of the Light and Space movement. I'm also thinking about painters like Agnes Martin and Robert Irwin, whose work explores similar ideas through different mediums. But in the end, it all comes back to this idea of seeing, of making us more aware of how we perceive the world around us.