A globally renowned artist who uses elements of the natural world to make us see our world in new ways.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown spoke with artist Olofer Elyesson in Los Angeles for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

For nearly six months in 2003, the sun set inside a giant hall in London's Tate Modern Museum,

an artificial effect creating a strange otherworld, made from hundreds of lamps, a mirrored ceiling, and a mist machine.

Called the Weather Project, this art installation was a sensation, attracting some 2 million

visitors.

Its creator, artist Olafer Ilyssin.

My art deals with the sort of what does it mean to see?

What does it mean to experience?

Can I see my own seeing?

Maybe it's not what I am looking at,

but maybe it's the looking itself.

Wow.

Can I see my own seeing?

Yes.

What is imagination?

Are we good at imagining things?

Then the sun came out.

Years later, Ily Essen is still concocting forms and environments

and still asking himself

and us such questions.

We met this fall in Los Angeles, where a survey of his work at the Museum of Contemporary

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