[1] It consists of a courtyard with a fountain nestled between two academic buildings with an illuminated canopy framing the sky above.

[3][1] A thin brightly-colored steel canopy covers the installation, with a nearly 16-square-foot (1.5 m2) cutout or aperture, that contains an LED lighting array.

[4][6] The shows slightly vary with each day to match changing conditions over the course of a year.

A Los Angeles Times review called it "one of the best works of public art in recent memory", lauding "Turrell's capacity to pull experiences of sensual refinement out of the heavens".

[8] It is associated with the Light and Space movement that originated in Southern California in the 1960s, and of which Turrell is a prominent member.