One knockout exhibit in the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle is in the Sealife Room. Like many of Chihuly’s large pieces, the centerpiece of the room initially looks like a huge freeform, sinuous pile of wild glass shapes. Look closer and it’s filled with identifiable golden shapes: shells, anemones, octopus, eye candy at it’s most fun. A fellow photographer in the room moved from one spot to the next, snapping away, and repeatedly murmuring, “Oh, wow!”
This is part of the Persian Ceiling, a room that serves as a passageway between exhibit rooms. Look up and it is a backlit kaleidoscope of shapes and color.
Some of the exhibits are as much about light and reflection as they are the glass shapes. Look at this image. It’s hard to tell where the glass stops and the reflection begins.
Gorgeous!
Wow – again. What fabulous work!!! And grand photos.
Great shots, Kay. Love the blue. The shots of the Space Needle are fun too. I live closer to Seattle than you but I haven’t been there in years. Maybe it’s time to give it a try. Too many people for me. Haha!! MB
Superb job of photographing the Chihuly glass objects. About 14 years ago, the Minneapolis Museum of Arts had a breathtaking exhibit of his work. I took my 4-yr-old grandson there twice. The second time was an early Sunday morning immediately after the museum opened its doors. In one gallery no-one else was around so Dom and I lay on the floor to get a better look at the objects in the ceiling. Within a short period of time, every adult, both young and old, joined us on the floor as we all gazed at the magnificence above us.