Field Of Light: Artist Uses 50,000 Lights To Turn Desert Into Surreal Fairytale
Bruce Munro is an internationally acclaimed British artist best known for his vast and immersive light-based installations. For this latest project, which is part of a series called Field of Light, the artist has chosen the great Australian outback as his canvas, namely the area near Uluru, the country’s spiritual center. The installation uses more than 50,000 light stems crowned with frosted-glass spheres and it covers a surface area equivalent to four football pitches.
Munro’s work is inspired by his interest in shared human experience, and the idea for this latest project came to him while traveling across the Red Desert to Uluru in 1992. During this trip he felt a compelling connection to the energy, heat and brightness of the desert landscape, and as he notes on his website, “Field of Light is the embodiment of that experience.”
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Come to South Africa! We'd love to see what you can do with our beautiful country
I love the results all of these lights have. Especially beautiful at night when they shine more brightly. However I can't imagine all the time and effort that went into getting them set up to begin with.
I guess how much disturbance this kinda project can bring to the environment.
I like it and it seems pretty fairy... but it concerns me how does he power all these because the world is not in shape to sustain pretty electronical artwork when there are power shortages in latin america, famine and lack of rains in many places.
I liked this much less than I thought I would - instead of highlighting the natural beauty of the area, it just looks tacky. So much so, that the Uluru one makes me cringe.
The photographic effect is very nice but this is really insane. Solar powered lights would have made so much sense.
Solar powered for a nighy shot? Only if the bulbs are lit on some kind of battery which had previously collected solar energy to be used for the night show.
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There are solar powered lights the same size as these that would eliminate all those ugly wires running all over the ground
Can they work at night? The effect is not the same if they're lit by day, is it?
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Come to South Africa! We'd love to see what you can do with our beautiful country
I love the results all of these lights have. Especially beautiful at night when they shine more brightly. However I can't imagine all the time and effort that went into getting them set up to begin with.
I guess how much disturbance this kinda project can bring to the environment.
I like it and it seems pretty fairy... but it concerns me how does he power all these because the world is not in shape to sustain pretty electronical artwork when there are power shortages in latin america, famine and lack of rains in many places.
I liked this much less than I thought I would - instead of highlighting the natural beauty of the area, it just looks tacky. So much so, that the Uluru one makes me cringe.
The photographic effect is very nice but this is really insane. Solar powered lights would have made so much sense.
Solar powered for a nighy shot? Only if the bulbs are lit on some kind of battery which had previously collected solar energy to be used for the night show.
Load More Replies... There are solar powered lights the same size as these that would eliminate all those ugly wires running all over the ground
Can they work at night? The effect is not the same if they're lit by day, is it?
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