Though this year marks the first iteration of the display for Brooklyn Botanic Garden, “Lightscape” stretches back to 2014, when the show was first presented at London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Raymond Gubbay (since acquired by Sony Music), with creative production by Culture Creative. “Remember the Light Inside You” by Jacqueline Woodson. A spokesperson from the Garden told ALL ARTS that they anticipate over 100,000 guests to visit the illuminated trail during its run, which started on Nov.
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And if you’re wondering just how long it took to string these lights, “Lightscape” required 20 people over the course of 18 days to install the immersive works. Sign up for our newsletterĪll told, the exhibition boasts two lasers, 42 sculptures, 600 strands of lights and much more along the one-mile-long path. Photo by Liz Ligon.Īmong the picture-worthy displays and illuminated trees, visitors will also find themselves wrapped in a “curated soundtrack representing the diversity of Brooklyn’s religious and ethnic winter cultural traditions,” noted the Garden in a press release. Here, animated lights blanket the Cherry Esplanade in ITHACA’s “Sea of Light” a 98-foot-long “Winter Cathedral” by Mandylights guides guests through a tunnel of warm LEDs sculptural flowers burst from the ground in TILT’s “White Peonies” and the words of author and poet Jacqueline Woodson radiate through the Garden in “Remember the Light Inside You,” with site-specific design by Shakeim Reed. 9, 2022.ĭescribed as an “illuminated spectacular that celebrates the beauty of winter,” the Garden’s “ Lightscape” installation presents a roster of 18 light-art works that include pieces created by local and international artists. In the words of the holiday season’s brightest star, Mariah Carey: “Oh, all the lights are shining / So brightly everywhere (So brightly, baby).” One such display of glittering glow can be found at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where (according to the institution) upwards of a million lights dot the venue’s vast landscape through Jan.