“I love it; children touching it. There honestly has to be a degree of care, and occasionally things get broken. We were all children at one point in our life, and in a way the Field of Light is the innocence of myself,” says Munro, recalling childhood memories during the holidays.
“It was always the same films running. In The Wizard of Ozthe film goes from black and white to color when Dorothy gets to Oz, and that, even now, when I see that part of the film, it brings back that memory of shock. Film is about light and moving images. The other memory is the tree lights. I was the youngest of three children, and my job was testing the bulbs to see if they worked. I think it brings out the child in everybody, that installation.”
The exhibit consists of 4,500 radiant, frosted glass spheres connected by illuminated fiber optic; they glow and change color and are best viewed after dusk. His team arranges the lights around the landscape of each exhibition site; here in Houston it flanks the Brown Promenade.
“In a way, the Field of Light is one of those pieces of work which is gently saying ‘thank you’ to the landscape that it’s in. It’s not necessarily the star of the show, it’s a place for people to be able to go, to contemplate,” says Munro.
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