Bruce Munro is a lighting designer with considerable experience in commercial, private and public installations. He is well known for adventurous sculptural light works and is well versed in all types of lighting, including fiber optics and LEDs. His newest installation at the Eden Project is set on a sloping grass roof full of clover between the Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes. The Field of Light is made up of 6,000 acrylic stems fed with fiber optics and capped with glass spheres. Eleven external projectors power the 24,000 meters of fiber optic cable, which covers an area of 60 x 20 meters.

The Eden Project is a well-known education center that encourages people to learn how to look after nature in a time of radical change. They offer educational programs, exhibits, events and workshops and especially focus on educating children and encouraging them to be part of nature.

Naturally, the Field of Light was best viewed at night after the sun has set, when the lights began to glow and the starry sky appeared to be reflected on the ground. The beautiful installation was on display from Winter into the Spring of 2009. As Munro remarks, “Field of Light, like a giant surreal camp-site banana, is an alien installation in the midst of nature. And like dry desert seeds lying in wait for the rain, the sculpture’s fiber optic stems lie dormant until darkness falls, and then under a blazing blanket of stars they flower with gentle rhythms of light. ‘Field of Light’ is about the desert as much as the roadside campsites.”

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