Your Brain on Creativity

HowlRound: I was in Santa Fe recently to be part of a working group on “Creativity in the Brain.” The night before the start of the conference, I visited the home of some very serious art collectors who have a James Turrell Skyspace in their home. Turrell’s architecture of light is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Sitting underneath this stretched square hole in the ceiling of one of the rooms in their home is like lying on the floor of a museum and watching a painting emerge, evolve, and transform above you, before your very eyes. How else to describe this but as an idea and an art that reflects the highest form of creativity?