Bruce Munro Announces Largest Solar-Powered Field of Light for Ayers Rock, Australia in 2013

We're huge fans of <a href="http://www.brucemunro.co.uk/">Bruce Munro</a>'s dazzling <a href="http://inhabitat.com/bruce-munros-field-of-light-in-melbourne/">light installations</a>, which populate fields and forests with thousands of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/bruce-munros-gorgeous-fields-of-led-flowers-bloom-at-longwood-gardens/">glowing LED flowers</a> - so we're excited to announce that the artist will be unveiling his largest project to date next year at Ayer's Rock (Uluru)! After a series of acclaimed installations around the world, <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/bruce-munro/">Munro</a> will be bringing his <a href="http://www.fieldoflight.co.uk/">Field of Light</a> back to the project's birthplace in the heart of the Australian red desert - and it will be entirely powered by <a href="http://inhabitat.com/solar-power/">solar energy</a>. Field of Light Uluru is currently at the fundraising state, so if you'd like to support this epic endeavor check out the <a href="http://www.fieldoflight.co.uk/fundraising.php">Field of Light crowd-sourcing page</a> and donate today.

<a href="http://www.brucemunro.co.uk/">Bruce Munro</a> was first inspired to create his fields of light while traveling through Australia's red desert in 1992.

He was amazed by the endless fields of flowers that burst up from the barren expanse when it rains, so he developed a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/interiors/lighting/">low-energy lighting</a> installation to bring the phenomenon to other locales.

Munro says “My aim is to make this an event shared in every aspect with as many people in Australia as possible.”

The artist's latest installation will aim to do just that - the national park at Ayer's Rock (which is also called Uluru) spans 311,000 acres, and Munro and his team will take six weeks to install his largest installation yet.

<a href="http://www.fieldoflight.co.uk/fundraising.php">Field of Light</a> at Uluru will consist of 3,290 kilometers of optical fiber and it will be entirely powered by solar energy.

Munro says that his team will take every effort to protect the landscape: "We’re going to be extraordinarily careful, and we’re using 500 <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/led/">LED</a> solar-powered illuminators, so that the installation doesn’t waste any power.”