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38 Bruce Munro b. 1959 Bruce Munro reflects: "I first discovered light as a medium after leaving art school, where I had studied and graduated with a Fine Art degree. I choose to work with light because working with a medium that was so very pure and true enabled me to express so many of the ideas that filled my head. In my early 40s, I realized that I had always been striving to be so different, to make my art different, looking for a shared experience. I've kept sketchbook journals for the last 40 years and recorded moments and memories of feeling at one with the world - and I realized that could be expressed by light. Our experiences of being connected to the world in its largest sense, of being part of an essential pattern, became my true subject matter. Salisbury Cathedral is an architectural wonder and it inspires many rarefied moments of spiritual connection. I have learned that ephemeral experiences, oddly, have the power to create a feeling of 'forever and always' truth; a sensed connection of shared understanding. I view the visual arts as one among many conduits by which one may glimpse or describe these ephemeral moments of being. In 2016 I had the opportunity to realise a dream project and create the vast installation 'Field of Light ® ' at Uluru, in central Australia. This was the place that had inspired the artwork in 1991, when my young fiancée (now wife) and I first camped there. Returning to the place twenty-five years later, I realized the great rock before me had not changed a bit, yet I had changed a great deal. I was jarred by the sudden truth that time is without boundaries, that the past, present, and future are inextricably interlinked. This revelation has been the basis for a series of artworks, each reinterpreting moments in time, distilling them and representing them as abstractions of my past experience. The works I have chosen to create in the alcoves of the North Porch of Salisbury Cathedral are interior and exterior portraits of the cathedral. The filmic data is taken from a compilation of 360-degree iPhone panoramas photographed in the 800th anniversary year of the cathedral, abstracted into pixels, and then recomposed by me. The process correlates to my awareness that my interpretation of experience is perpetually in a state of flux. As a series, 'Time and Place' artworks will continue to evolve; like time itself, it is always a work-in-progress." Time and Place, 2020 Corian, Aluminum Dibond and light source 60.8 x 222.1 cm Courtesy of the artist Time and Place, 2020 - Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro Many people coming into the Cathedral start taking photos on their phones before they have properly taken time to look around them. If 'time is a work in progress' how might we encourage people to look before they snap?