To see yourself on an alien planet , you need go no far than Cornwall , England . That ’s where inflammation designer Bruce Munro has localize his outdoor installation , “ Field of Light . ” Thousands of fiber ocular cables go past with acrylic orbs illuminate the countryside , giving the depression that the field is populated with bioluminescent vegetation from another world .
Munro ’s inspiration for the loose installation was a trip through the Australian red-faced desert . The roadside encampment where he stayed often sport statues of surreally big plant and beast animation – bananas , ananas , sheep – as if to overcompensate for the absence of life around them . He also noticed that , after a hard rain , flora would abound from the once barren desert floor . look to hearten that sensory faculty of surprising and spontaneous living , Munro designed artificial plants that seem to do to life only as darkness fall . By sidereal day , the field looks like an average knoll of grass , but by night , it is transform into an preternatural environment :
Field of Light , like a jumbo surreal camp - side banana , is an alien installation in the midst of nature . And like dry desert cum lying in hold for the pelting , the sculpture ’s fibre optic stems lie dormant until darkness devolve , and then under a blazing cover of whizz they flower with easy rhythms of visible light . ‘ Field of Light ’ is about the desert as much as the roadside campsites- and like much of Munro ’s piece of work is characterised by an almost mystical rage for nature teamed with a full-bodied sense of humour .
“ Field of Light ” is presently on display on the grounds of theEden Project , an environmental complex that houses the public ’s largest nursery . Because it is well viewed during the sorry winter month , the installation will remain at the Eden Project until the outflow . [ DezeenviaInhabitat ]
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