There’s no GLOW without fire. Fire is the mother of light; nature in all its destructive beauty. Artist and technical engineer Ivo Schoofs saw what happened when a tornado raged across a forest fire to elevate the flames to a 10 metres' height. He wondered if it was possible to controllably reproduce that very same effect. After a successful scale-model of a fire tornado, Ivo Schoofs and his team have now successfully built a fascinating light installation which spectacularly exposes a piece of ‘Nature’s Architecture’. The Large Fire Tornado is created by a powerful source of fire and 36 industrial ventilators inside an installation reaching 12 metres into the sky. In a co-production with GLOW International Light festival, the Large Fire Tornado has its first night in Eindhoven. You are about to see light in its most original form. You are about to see light in its most original form… That is to say, with reservations, because even primeval light will turn dark when confronted with extreme wind or rainfall. Ivo Schoofs has been a guest of GLOW before. Since then his Large Pendulum Wave has successfully toured to many prominent festivals across the globe. This project is made possible by Friends of GLOW.