The world’s largest light installation shines on a small Australian town

In Albany, Western Australia, Finnish artist Kari Kola has thrown beams across the night sky with a spectacle that may even be visible from space

The coastal scrub above Whalers Cove crackles underfoot as Menang man Larry Blight kneels and pushes his hands into the sandy soil. After a moment he lifts a tangled bulb from the earth.

“This is bloodroot. Our people were named after it,” he says proudly.