Mayo Clinic Art: Part TWO: Featuring Dale Chihuly glass art

You may or may not like blown glass art.

But I guarantee you, if you saw what I did at the Mayo Clinic,

you would definitely fall in love with it.

Throughout the clinic, the artist Dale Chihuly's art was featured.

It absolutely blew me away!!!

If you have a few moments, read about this magnificent artist HERE.

And now, take a tour of what I saw with me, shall we?

First, some closeups of the miracle of blown glass!

LOOK at this!!:

And, in a minute, I will show you a larger picture of what this is from...

but just LOOK at the swirls and colors in this piece:

Which was part of THIS art piece!:

Go back up and look again at it.

See how there are pieces of glass blown INSIDE other parts of glass?...like the dark blue "horn" coming out of that little glass hole inside the "wing" of the blue glass?

Amazing, isn't it????



Then, look at this closeup of the little horn....the swirling of the glass, trimmed in red glass....

See the little hole the horn is sticking through in the larger glass art object? Simple awesome!:





Sooooo beautiful!:





And this round sphere smack in the middle of it, too!:




How intricate at every angle!:

Sorry for the glare, of course it was in a glass case beside the grand piano in the lobby for protection!:

But, as GORGEOUS as that was....

I had no idea

that

what I was going to see next

was

going

to

blow me

completely away!!!!

Dale Chihuly was commissioned by a grateful Mayo Clinic family

to make handblown chandeliers for the facility.

Not just ANY chandeliers...

but

THESE!!!:

Aren't they magnificient!!?????

The first thing I thought of was Medusa.

The goddess with all the snakes in her hair....




Just LOOK at each and every piece of handblown glass in each of the chandeliers!

Swirls, designs, colors, twists....

Be. Still. My. Heart.:

Oooooooo....glass splendor!!:

Just LOOK

at

the twists,

the turns,

the swirls,

the detail that went into each one!:

Of course, after being speechless

and

just looking

at

all

the details in each one...

I thought:

Man, wonder how they hung them up?

Then, I thought:

Man, I wonder how they DUST them?...

Then, I was grateful that dusting them was not MY job.

My job

was

to just stare at them in wonder....

and say WOW.

Which I did.

Several times!:

Here is some info about the chandeliers taken from article they had by the display:

Oh yes!

They DID make me feel good!!

How about YOU?: