Roden crater

For the past 40 years, artist James Turrell has been working on creating his most massive project yet, a largely unseen network of installations built inside a dormant volcano in the Arizona desert. The ambitious land artwork aims to turn the 2.5-mile wide crater into a series of rooms and tunnels...

Once complete, the installation will include 21 viewing spaces and six tunnels. There’s been no word on when - if ever - the installation will be open to the general public.

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Crater’s Eye ()

Ever been inside a volcanic crater? 🌋 The idea might seem fantastical, but over the past 50 years James Turrell has been turning the remains of an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert into an installation that melds place and artwork, changing people’s perceptions of the earth and sky. With arrangements of light and space that appear both otherworldly and ancient, the transformation of the 400,000 years old Roden Crater has been in the works for a long time.