As the sun sets on our bustling city, British artist Bruce Munro’s “Field of Light” comes to life in the form of 17,000 fiber-optic spheres which create a glowing other-worldly landscape.

Munro’s installation was inspired by a 1992 trip to Uluru through the Red Desert in central Australia, where he was struck by the brightness, energy, and heat of the desert landscape. He sought to capture that feeling in his artwork, noting he “wanted to create an illuminated field of stems that, like the dormant seed in a dry desert, would burst into bloom at dusk with gentle rhythms of light under a blazing blanket of stars.” After ten years in development, the “Field of Light” exhibition was born.

The exhibition is immersive, and has guided millions through the changing fiberoptic lights as they take a winding path through the ethereal landscape across the globe. The field at Freedom Plaza will light up Manhattan through August 31st.