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As a trio of deer bounded across the gardens at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on a recent morning, they deftly avoided glass orbs on slender, flexible stems. The humans who were installing thousands of these tangerine-size bulbs weren’t always as graceful. One got briefly tangled in a network of fiber-optic threads, while others gingerly picked their way through the glistening web of wires.In all, 28,000 solar-powered spheres, each containing a fiber-optic thread that slowly changes color, will create waves of muted luminosity over sixteen acres in the center’s Texas Arboretum as part of Field of Light, a site-specific exhibit by British artist Bruce Munro that opens September 9. Visitors will need tickets to stroll a 0.58-mile gravel path through the swaying display, a…
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