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Chihuly at Phipps

The Chihuly exhibit of blown glass at Phipps is stunning. (See my photos at Flickr.) Unlike his lofty chandeliers in Las Vegas, his installation here intermixes hundreds of individualy blown pieces in the flowers and ferns mere feet from the viewer, with the glass reflecting the color of the surrounding flora (and fauna, if butterflies count as fauna). On an unrelated note, doesn't this orchid look like Yosemite Sam?

May 29, 2007 : 9:01 PM
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Yes, I can see Yosemite Sam. This also brings to mind the orchid's Greek etymology.
posted by genug : May 30, 2007 10:07 AM : link to this comment

Dirty!
posted by Moira : May 30, 2007 11:08 AM : link to this comment

So plant anatomy is beautiful, but animal anatomy is dirty? That sounds like kingdomism to me.
posted by genug : May 30, 2007 7:55 PM : link to this comment

Good point. They're both beautiful, but because I'd like to keep my search-engine referral traffic clean, we're only going to show scantily clad flowers here . . .
posted by Moira : May 31, 2007 10:48 PM : link to this comment

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