January 19, 2004

I went to see Dale Chihuly: Mille Fiori (A Thousand Flowers) at the Tacoma Art Museum yesterday. Though the picture does it absolutely no justice. The blurb on the website says, "Mille Fiori is a glass garden of bold and unexpected forms, rich and vibrant in color." It was amazing. It takes your breath away as you walk into the room and see this extravagant yellow ball of swirling glass. Countering it on the other end of the room is a pillar of similar shapes that begins white and blends to a brilliant blue. Both of these giant structures are surrounded by a long rectangular garden of glass. Colors & shapes forming just that...a garden. And to think that tomorrow they are going to disassemble it and put it in a warehouse. Sad, but true.