Bruce Munro @ Longwood

Seeing the Bruce Munro installation at Longwood Gardens was a beautiful experience for sure. There was such an organic beauty to how he was able to transform the spaces that his installations occupied. Lights pulsated in a way that quoted the spaces that they were placed in. In a sense, each new installation was a separate entity and experience on its own, creating the feeling of moving from one unique setting to the next. There were some installations that stood out rather than others when Munro's work is looked at this way. Personally, I was able to identify with the water bottles quite well. I spent most of my time there, focusing on the sillhouttes of the people that mingled around. I squinted, and the negative spaces that each persons body made, in comparison to the pillars of light water, seemed ethereal and evoked a greater idea of humanity in me. I was drawn to the way each person was individually affected by the exhibit, but at the same instant, how the groups of people as a whole experienced it too.

I was most pleased with the Forest Walk part of the exhibit. The ability to take an already wonderful space and add to its sense of natural beauty is very inspiring. Bruce had to have taken into great consideration the initial serenity before even considering placing one of the ten-thousand lights that filled the floor of the woods. This part of the exhibit alone, was definitely worth making the trip.