Lighting artist Bruce Munro plans to turn a square kilometre of Australia's red desert into a shimming cathedral of light - and he needs your help!
Bruce Monroe envisions a quarter of a million stems encircling Uluru (Ayers Rock)
They might look like an alien landscape from a CGI movie like Avatar, but these fields of glowing orbs are the very real creations of lighting artist and designer Bruce Munro.
And now he's working to create his largest installation to date, 'The Field of Light', which will turn one square kilometre at Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia's Red Desert into a panorama of shimmering light.
The design will use 500 LED and solar-powered illuminators to make it self-sufficient in power
The installation will be entirely solar powered and made up of 3290km of optic fibre and 165km of recycled 12mm acrylic tube.
Funding for the project is being sought via corporate sponsors and via a crowd-funding website (where visitors can pledge £12 per stem).
Garden illuminations
Munroe's work is currently on show at Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia, one of the world's great display gardens. It feature seven large-scale outdoor installations and other illuminated sculptures.
The illustration at Longwood includes a lit up water tower made up of one-litre recyclable plastic bottles, a forest with 20,000 illuminated glass tulips, and lit-up lilly pads
He's best known in the UK for creating a special installation for the Eden Project, an ecological visitor attraction in Cornwall.
It involved 6000 acrylic stems, each crowned with a glass sphere, being installed on the roof of the visitors' centre.
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Munro and five assistants worked over three days to create this installation at the Eden Centre
As well as his artistic endeavours, Munro works with a small team to create architectural lighting schemes for commercial spaces, including bespoke luminaires, chandeliers, and sculptures.
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