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Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker recently visited Roden Crater, James Turrell’s art installation in an extinct volcano.Booker shared photos of the visit, including one of Turrell wearing Booker’s signature Nike shoes.
People who track Devin Booker’s Instagram account know him for his eclectic passion for baseball, music, vintage muscle cars, subcultures, art and nature. He’s not just a Phoenix Suns superstar.
On Friday, July 18, Booker posted photos on Instagram of his time spent at artist James Turrell’s Arizona-based volcano-turned-land art project titled Roden Crater, about 50 miles northeast of Flagstaff.
The post’s caption is simply “desert nights.”
The first photo in the thread shows Booker sitting within the Arizona State-funded volcanic cinder cone’s observatory for viewing and experiencing skylight, solar and celestial phenomena. Photos within Booker’s post also show the 82-year-old Turrell donning the popular Nike Book 1 signature shoes.
Roden Crater is a 400,000-year-old volcanic cone that Turrell converted the inner cone to the observatory that features his skyscapes, which frame the sky from enclosed spaces through an aperture in the roof.
The creation is 580 feet tall, nearly two miles wide and includes a nearly 900-foot-long tunnel.
Turrell is widely revered as the “master of light” for his work in the abstract since the 1970s.
In addition to Turrell, Booker also posted multiple videos of the Uinkaret volcanic field emitting lava near the Grand Canyon on his Instagram story.