Light Artist Turns Hill Into Giant Illuminated Breast for Cancer Charity

Glorious or insensitive?

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British light artist Bruce Munro has turned a piece of the Wiltshire countryside in England into a giant Lite Brite breast. Dubbed the "Beacon on the Hill," the installation is actually a dome made of thousands of plastic bottles that Munro illuminated with pink and blue fiber optics. Munro's intentions were good—the installation supports the Cancerkin charity and has gotten a lot of sponsors—but he's still being criticized for insensitivity, and his beacon has been called "poorly thought out [and] unresearched."

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