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alexandraerinI'll be writing more of Little Aidan's story in a bit. In fact, I've written a little bit more since the construction post started... I've had a bit of a personal breakthrough when it comes to writing on my phone, which is nice as I'd almost given up using the virtual keyboard for that purpose. Unfortunately it came when the battery was almost dead, and when I was spending some quality time with my parents.
We drove to St. Petersburg to see the Dale Chihuly collection on permanent display there, and then had lunch at a nice restaurant with outdoor seating that had a view of the water across a little park area. It was very pleasant. I'm a big fan of Chihuly, ever since the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha hosted a traveling exhibition and acquired a couple of his pieces, which you can get a distant view of on the museum's Wikipedia page. I have a recollection that there used to be a better picture of one of them on Chihuly's page, but all art is ephemeral and wiki art is especially so.
I enjoyed the chance to walk among Chihuly's sculptures up close very much. I wish they would have allowed photography and/or electronic devices... I found my muse moved at several points and really would have liked nothing better than to plop down on a bench with my laptop and spend the afternoon there in the gallery writing... or failing that, taking some reference pictures and notes on my failing smartphone. At least I have the website to refresh my memory.
The blue chandelier piece, Azul De Medianoche (visible in the right of the exhibition page), in particular is the sort of thing I could just stare at for hours, but it was other parts of the collection that really fired my imagination. Chihuly and his team possess a real genius for creating organic looking shapes out of glass with the illusion of life and movement, and near the end of the gallery walkthrough there was a veritable forest of their creations placed on a reflective surface that added whole new layers to the presentation. I have in my head now images of a forest of glass, grasping and reaching tendrils swaying in the breeze, flower blossoms sprouting from a wall and locking together like gears in an intricate machine... I don't know if any of it will go anywhere, but it's there.
We drove to St. Petersburg to see the Dale Chihuly collection on permanent display there, and then had lunch at a nice restaurant with outdoor seating that had a view of the water across a little park area. It was very pleasant. I'm a big fan of Chihuly, ever since the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha hosted a traveling exhibition and acquired a couple of his pieces, which you can get a distant view of on the museum's Wikipedia page. I have a recollection that there used to be a better picture of one of them on Chihuly's page, but all art is ephemeral and wiki art is especially so.
I enjoyed the chance to walk among Chihuly's sculptures up close very much. I wish they would have allowed photography and/or electronic devices... I found my muse moved at several points and really would have liked nothing better than to plop down on a bench with my laptop and spend the afternoon there in the gallery writing... or failing that, taking some reference pictures and notes on my failing smartphone. At least I have the website to refresh my memory.
The blue chandelier piece, Azul De Medianoche (visible in the right of the exhibition page), in particular is the sort of thing I could just stare at for hours, but it was other parts of the collection that really fired my imagination. Chihuly and his team possess a real genius for creating organic looking shapes out of glass with the illusion of life and movement, and near the end of the gallery walkthrough there was a veritable forest of their creations placed on a reflective surface that added whole new layers to the presentation. I have in my head now images of a forest of glass, grasping and reaching tendrils swaying in the breeze, flower blossoms sprouting from a wall and locking together like gears in an intricate machine... I don't know if any of it will go anywhere, but it's there.