I know. shocking, a post not on food! But, it does continue my Seattle series.

I finally had a chance to visit the Chihuly Garden and Glass at Seattle, just across from the Space Needle. I came here on Tuesday for a couple hours as I had to leave on the 6:30pm Bolt Bus so didn’t have the opportunity to see how the exhibit gets lit in the evening. It’s was a breathtakingly few hours though, as I admired the fragility and strength of glass, wondered at who in history was brave and creative enough to think to blow into molten sand, let the colors and organic shapes remind me of this world while also twisting and transporting me into another fantasy universe that was both surreal yet completely natural.

It is definitely more than an exhibit of just pretty glass of different shapes. It showcased a love of architecture and form, while merging structure with glass that seemed to defy structure in the way it melted and flowed, and then placing it in an environment in which lighting, shading, reflection, and nature be it the sky earth, greenery or water, became part of the art exhibit and not just the space around it. You could focus on the whole, or all the individual parts, each telling its own story. There was whimsy, and introspection, and as I learned, the love Dale Chihuly had for his childhood and his mother and her gardens, and years of admiring glass greenhouses finally come to fruition.

Here are a few peeks: