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N UNEXPECTED question from the international art world: What fills 14,000 boxes
in five 53-foot containers delivered by truck and, upon arrival at the destination,
demands the attention of ten expert installers for three days?
The answer: Chihuly at the Dallas Arboretum. If you are familiar with the work of globally ubi-
quitous glass artist Dale Chihuly, you can immediately generate a mental image of explosive col-
ors and Disney-esque shapes combined in unpredictable juxtapositions amidst trees and fountains.
If you are not familiar with Chihuly's glass, and the effect it has
on audiences, the Dallas Arboretum offers you an abundance of
outdoor installations across the 66-acre site through November 5.
The work evokes wonder and amazement from those seeing this
type of sculpture for the first time. The wonder starts with the sheer
sensual impact of the sculptures. Some offer a visual definition of joy.
Others seem more pensive. During my tour, I am surprised when a
> guide points out a modest installation of green glass fiddlehead ferns
peeking out among clumps of the real ferns. A closer look suggests
that they might even move with the gentle breeze (but they don't).
Then there are more cynical responses: "What are these glass
Boisterous colors and calamitous sculptures doing here? Aren't the plants what we came to see?
shapes seem ready to jump from This is not art, it's garish and inappropriate."
this vessel and into the pond. So, Chihuly accomplishes what artists typically set out to do:
He challenges an accepted sense of form and color and context
to create a new experience. Some love it. A few do not. But it's amazing on multiple levels.
"Are you worried about what might happen during a hail storm?" one visitor asks. Chihuly
shrugs. After all, he's thrown seemingly fragile blown-glass forms off a bridge into the canals
of Venice. Why worry about a little Texas weather?
Charles J. Lohrmann, Editor-in-Chief
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contributor and Big Thicket conservationist Howard Peacock, who passed away April 22.Published monthly by the
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