Larry Bell’s Art Through the Looking Glass

Larry Bell’s Art Through the Looking Glass

TAOS, New Mexico — “Have a good time,” Larry Bell tells me. He’s left me alone to look at one of his Light Knot works, a prismatic organic contortion made of thin sheets of polyester coated with aluminum and silicon monoxide. The piece is suspended from the ceiling and lit with a small projector. Air currents in the room cause it to rotate slowly, though the light appears to move incredibly fast across its surface. To my immediate left is a fram…