Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Lewis & Clark Trip Day 32: Seattle I (6/8/2021)

Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Our good friends (and our matchmakers) in Seattle have been waiting four years for this visit. We had planned to see them on our way home from Alaska in 2017! The last time we visited them in Seattle was 1987!
University of Washington: Department of Forensic Morphology
Annex Prototype (2004, by Chris Bruck) (KSS)
Seattle Center Peace Garden Rock with quote by Anne Frank
Tree dedicated to Peace and the
Space Needle (1961-1962, for
the 1962 World's Fair)
Peace Garden Peace Pole
Seattle Center Sonic Bloom (2013, by Dan Corson)
Now to the Chihuly Garden & Glass featuring works of Dale Chihuly, known for taking the art of blown glass and moving it to the realm of large-scale sculpture. He was born and raised in Tacoma, and his parents were from Slovakia.
Chihuly Garden and Glass (2012)
Winter Brilliance (2015)
Northwest: Nesting "baskets" inspired by First Peoples culture
From Chihuly's private collection of trade blankets
Examples of non-symmetrical blown glass with threads
of colored glass are displayed with first Peoples baskets
from Chihuly's private collection
Sealife Tower (KSS)
Sealife Tower detail
Persian Ceiling
Mille Fiori/Thousand Flowers
Mille Fiori detail
Mille Fiori detail (KSS)
Kent & Tamiko, Jan & Kirby at Chihuly Garden and Glass
Floats in a wooden rowboat belonging to Chihuly (KSS)
Ikebana/Japanese flower design in a second rowboat
Green Chandelier
Blue Chandelier (KSS)
Part of Macchia Forest
Inner side of the above bowl; Chihuly noted
that color stood out more against a cloudy sky
than a blue one, so he experimented with
putting a layer of white between layers of color
Another Macchia Forest "bowl" (KSS)
The same Macchia Forest "bowl"
Chihuly's greenhouse design with a glass installation (KSS)
In the Garden
In the Garden
In the Garden (KSS)
Chihuly's Greenhouse (KSS)
Geranium maculatum/Wild Geranium
Stewartia sp
The "back" of the Mobile Education Hot Shop for
presenting glass-blowing demonstrations
Eryngium alpinum/Blue thistle
Allium sp
Next: Seattle II.

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