All of the works in the Venetian series blossom and rustle like flowering plants—organic nature, at its most flourishing, is Chihuly’s inspiration--as though
composed of Venetian sea and sky. Creativity has been said to involve the union of opposites, which is what Chihuly accomplishes when he unites color and line.
Light is the essence of Chihuly’s sculpture, absorbed, reflected, and distilled by the glass, a sort of immaterial material by reason of its molten transparency. Fluid as water, it can be given any and every shape, as Chihuly seems to do. Glass is a metamorphic material, like paint, but it projects in space, as paint does not, giving it greater presence.
Eighty pages of full color photos and an essay by Donald Kuspit, this hard cover book features Drawings and Sculptures created over a twenty-five year period.
