No.0002
The Weather Project
Tate Modern, London, UK
From touch there is a striving to touch, not just touch, and from this developed what could be sight. When sight came, the first moment of sight was the realization of beauty. I don't mean beautiful or very beautiful or extremely beautiful. Just simply beauty itself, which is stronger than any of the adjectives you might add to it. It is a total harmony you feel without choice. It is a feeling of total harmony as though you were meeting your maker, the maker being that of nature, because nature is she maker of all that is made. You cannot design anything without nature helping you.
Sight then came about and sight immediately felt the total harmony. Art, which was immediately felt, was the first word, one can say the first line, but I think the first word, the first utterance. It could have been, "Ah," just that. What a powerful word that is. It expresses so much with just a few letters.
Between Silence and Light