Renowned lighting sculptor creates 'CD Sea'

CD Sea will use up to one million donated CDs.

Bruce Munro, known for his sculptural lighting installations and work on the Eden Project, plans to turn hundreds of thousands of CDs into an inspirational outdoor design feature.

Towards the end of March, Munro plans to use the CDs to create an installation called ‘CD Sea’. Munro and a number of his friends will spend a day laying the discs across the 10-acre Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire, England.

Munro now has half a million CDs and hopes to reach one million by the end of March. Friends of the Earth, local schools and a recycling firm are amongst those who have donated old and unwanted discs.

“This is becoming exiting,” Munro said. “I think it’s possible that it's really going to happen. All these people donating CDs, it's amazing. I'm touched by the response.”

Because of its nature, CD Sea will be on public view from the moment it is installed. Munro conceives it as an inland sea, made with one million CDs laid over the cropped grass. They will create a carpet of glinting light reflected from the sun, and in the evenings reflecting the silvery light of the moon.

The inspiration for CD Sea came to Munro one Sunday afternoon on a rocky peninsular at Nielsen Park, Australia.

“The light was still strong, like a blanket of shimmering silver light. I had this childish notion that by putting my hand in the sea I was somehow connected to my home in Salcombe, where my father lived,” Munro said.

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