Sea of Light is a transformative light installation that responds to location. Designed to both complement and accentuate the natural features of its environment, as well as highlighting manmade sculptural and architectural details.
The light installation melds with the landscape, becoming a part of the place rather than just a distraction. A real connection rather than just an attachment. No two versions are ever the same because the land leads the design process.
Here we see Sea of Light in the beautiful rural setting of Leonardslee Gardens in Sussex, England. The installation was designed to weave around a central sculptural piece, the 7m high Faith statue.
Working with the natural undulation of the sloping ground, a bespoke organic layout was designed that uses plant-like tendrils of individually addressable pixels to create form, shape and movement.
Around 8,000 lights create a constantly changing artwork that mesmerises. Footage taken by drone helps to show the scale of the work, covering an area of over 2,500 square meters.
At the end of the show the work is removed without trace and the landscape reverts to its original state.
