No.0044 A Light the 1st The Weather Project The Tate Modern, London, UK From beauty, Wonder. Wonder has nothing to do with knowledge. It is a first response to the intuitive, the intuitive being the odyssey, or the record of the odyssey, of our making through the untold billions of years of making. I don't believe that one thing started at one time and another started at another time. Everything was started in one way at the same time and it was no time either: it just simply was there. Wonder is the same feeling that the astronauts must have felt when they saw the earth at a great distance. I followed them and I felt what they felt: this great ball in space, pink, or rose, and blue and white. Somehow all the things on it, even the great achievements like, let us say, Paris, a great achievement, or London, all disappeared and became circumstantial works. But the Toccata and fugue did not disappear, because it was the most unmeasurable and therefore the closest to that which cannot disappear. The more deeply something is engaged in the unmeasurable, the more deeply it has this lasting value. So you cannot deny the Toccata and Fugue. You cannot deny the great works of art because they are born out of the unmeasurable. I think what you felt was just Wonder, not knowledge or knowing. You felt that knowledge was not as important as your sense of Wonder, which was a great feeling without reservation, without obligation, without accounting for yourself. Wonder is the closest intouchness with your intuitive. Between Silence and Light