I came across this article about an exhibit which included a video kaleidoscope.
Ara Peterson and Jim Drain’s “Large Video Kaleidoscope” (2003-06) looks like the most direct remembrance of Turrell here. It opens a hole in the wall through which angled mirrors multiply the changing light, colors and figures of an abstract video projection.
And here’s an article about kaleidoscope artist Jerry Farnsworth.
Farnsworth exhibited and sold wooden toys and kaleidoscopes in several imaginative designs.
He said he has been making wooden toys for 26 years and began adding kaleidoscopes 16 years ago.
“I wanted to do something more difficult,” he said.
The kaleidoscopes allow him to create not only the outside of a piece, but the inside as well. He said the mirrors used to create each kaleidoscope must be fixed at an exact angle, although several combinations of angles are possible.
“You have to arrange them in the exact position to get what you want,” he said.
The kaleidoscopes for sale Saturday ranged from a small wooden heart necklace with a kaleidoscope inside to a crab, a car, a camera and other designs. Farnsworth also has more traditional-looking rectangular kaleidoscopes.
He said he began creating all the different shapes and sizes to make something unique. “I started making my niche in the business by making something you wouldn’t be expecting in a kaleidoscope,” he said.
He said he even has kaleidoscopes that four people can all look into at the same time.
“Anything in the world can have a kaleidoscope in it or pointed at it,” Farnsworth said.