And then there was Macchia. Macchia is Italian for spotted, and that is the direction that Dale went in after the sea series. The forms are not drastically different but the surface color and pattern are. His mother called this the ugly series interestingly enough.
And so we continue with the amazing class work of Dale Chihuly. These are Dale's Seaforms which sprung from his basket collection previously posted. By adding the ribbing to the forms, Dale found that not only were they stronger but they took on a seaform life of their own. He went with this to amazing results. You can see the movement in water, the shells, the anemones and jellyfish.
Over the next month or so I will be doing a series of posts on the work of glass blower and sculptor, Dale Chihuly. I have long loved his work which is too prolific and varied to cover in one post. These images are from his Basket Series of which he states, "I had seen some beautiful Indian baskets at the Washington State Historical Society, and I was struck by the grace of their slumped, sagging forms. I wanted to capture this in glass. The breakthrough for me was recognizing that heat and gravity were the tools to be used to make these forms."
