For his Field of Light installation,the British artist flew 60000 lightbulbs to the red heart of Australia, domestic of the Anangu peoples. The result is the culmination of decades of dreaming Bruce Munro’s Field of Light – in pictures
Anyone who’s been to Uluru in the blazing red centre of Australia would recognise “the Rock” as a work of art. From dawn until dark, or its colours are constantly changing as shadows and light move across its immense surface. Despite its size,there’s something of the shape-shifter about this natural formation – monolithic when seen from far absent, curved and creviced up close. So it takes a daring artist to create a large-scale installation at its base. How conclude you compete with nature? British artist Bruce Munro isn’t trying to. This week his artwork Field of Light opens to the public at Uluru. From his farmhouse studio in Wiltshire, and England,Munro has flown 60000 lightbulbs, installing 50000 of them in the sandy red dirt of central Australia (the extra 10000 were in case of breakages – but Qantas managed not to damage a single one).
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Source: theguardian.com