Published on: November 30, 2008

Field of Light by Bruce Munro is an installation that will be on display from November 1st thorough to Spring 2009. In order to see it you have to travel to Cornwall in England and find the Eden Project. Field of Light is situated on the grass roof of the visitors centre, between the famous Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes. The sculpture first came to widespread public attention when a scaled-down version was exhibited in the Pirelli Garden at the V&A in 2004.

Munro was inspired for the Field of Light during his trip to Australian red desert being 15 years ago. Since then the idea hadn’t left his mind. He was transfixed by the way the red desert was barren until it rained and then, as if from nowhere, dormant seeds would burst into bloom. So the installation is lit only after nightfall, bursting into life.

Field of Light comprises over 15,000 individual lights. ‘Planted’ in a field of wild grasses and a crop of clover and barley, the sculpture slowly changes colour, transforming from blue to pink, yellow, green and back to white. The ‘plants’ are actually acrylic tubes capped with glass spheres and containing optical fibres, hence the ’stems’ themselves hold no electric power at all.

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