Chihuly glass is a little hard to describe. It's sort of like the Grand Canyon; it just has to be experienced. Dale Chihuly is a bigger-than-life glass blowing artist. He doesn't create glass objects, he creates entire symphonies in glass.In March I saw his latest installation at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens. Desert gardens sounds like an oxymoron, but trust me, it's spectacular, especially in spring when the desert is in bloom.
I'm still trying to figure out how something so alien as brilliantly colored glass can look so natural in a desert setting. A boat marooned in a dry creek. Glass flames licking up through cactus. Aqua chunks of ice floating among the dry reeds. You have to see it to believe it.
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