Chihuly

Last September my daughter and I went to the De Young Museum in San Francisco to see the Chihuly exhibit. It was an amazing display of glass form and color. If you have ever worked with glass you will definitely appreciate the work of Chihuly. Colorful glass filled room after room of the museum and it was all so beautiful. I would highly recommend the exhibit if it's in your neighborhood or even somewhere close. It was worth the drive for us. One of my favorites was the room that had multiple glass pieces suspended on the ceiling behind clear glass in sort of a skylight effect. All the incredible color was lit up by the light shining down behind the glass. It made me think that it would be great to have colorful skylights in my house.

I just watched a show on PBS called "Chihuly in the Hotshop". It was very interesting to see all the different glass forms and how they make them. I was surprised to find out that Chihuly did not do much of the actual glass work himself due to physical limitations, but he did a lot of designing on paper for each of the pieces. It was fun to see his artists slinging hot molten glass around like nothing. Of course there was some breakage which was good to see so that even the most skilled glass workers make mistakes once in awhile.