The 15-acre Field of Light at Sensorio is located in Paso Robles, California, and created by British installation artist Bruce Munro. Installing the 58,000 fiber-optic stemmed spheres took 20 volunteers over five weeks to complete.
Paso Robles, California, is known for its wineries, its thermal springs and an abundance of olive groves. But visitors are about to see the Central Coast town in a whole new light—literally: Starting May 19, some 58,800 stemmed spheres will bathe a 15-acre hillside off Highway 46 in shifting waves of color, as British artist Bruce Munro officially turns on his sprawling immersive installation, Field of Light.
The vision for Munro's fiber-optic field of dreams came more than a quarter-century ago, in 1992, when he was visiting Uluru . “My wife and I were living in Sydney, and we decided to go,” Munro, 59, tells Newsweek. “I was cynical—like, ‘What can a rock do for you?’—-but I was blown away. There was so much power in the landscape.”
It was some years later, in the early 2000s, when he first created a prototype Field of LIght for London’s Harvey Nichols department store. Since then, he's planted versions in a variety of locations, from a field near his studio in Wiltshire, England, to the Nicholas Conservatory in Rockford, Illinois.
Sensorio's owners, Ken and Bobbi Hunter, were on vacation when they first encountered Field of Light at Uluru. “We were eating dinner and the sun went down," Ken tells Newsweek. "All of the sudden this glow started in the desert. As it got darker, the lights got more prominent.” “We want to insert ourselves into the landscape without overwhelming it," says Bobbi."And that’s what Bruce does. It’s a good ‘Phase One.’”
He did have one proviso, reveals Bobbi: "We said ‘Hey, let’s add music,’ and Bruce was like, 'Ah, no.'”
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