I feel sad that the Chihuly Exhibit at the Dallas Arboretum is now over. They are carefully packing the glass up and loading it on to trucks – I suppose that it will eventually go to some other urban garden somewhere, but I don’t know where. It’s been in a few places over the years and see no reason to quit now. I’d love to visit it in a new home, see what the glass looks like in a different setting, in a different arrangement.
In the meantime, I still have a lot of photographs. I went down to the Arboretum with my camera at least three times (plus a few more with only my eyes). I can dredge through my archives… find some that I like and put them here.
Blue Reeds, Dale Chihuly, Dallas Arboretum
Bill Chance 
Each time I light my torch and hold a glass rod in my hand and I begin to melt it in the flame I think of Dale he is amazing. When his pieces arrived here in Boston I told my Mom to leave me there I could have slept in his exhibit as it was even with tons of people I brought home on my SD card so many beautiful memories and the MFA still has the glass TREE
Love your photo brought me back to my day spent in Boston with Mom just two summers ago
Eunice
There’s just something about Chihuly’s work — it’s mesmerizing. Thanks for sharing your beautiful photo.
OK, I’m the practical one 😉 Are these glass sculptures really strong? tough? or is there breakage possibly?
The glass is tough, but not unbreakable. There was damage this summer after a hail storm.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Hail-Damages-Chihuly-Exhibit-at-Dallas-Arboretum-159046965.html
But they had replacement pieces ready to go and it was fixed in a couple days.
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/home-and-gardening/headlines/20120614-extras-of-damaged-chihuly-pieces-already-made.ece
As it would be a crime for them to be broken. Thank you for your pictures and letting us in on beauty we cannot see on our own.
I saw these amazing pieces at the Missouri Botanical Garden a few years back. They are great fun and art. Your photographs are engaging.
Amazing photographs! I love the striking colors!
This is a nice photograph! I agree with you, it is not going to be the same without it. I wonder what they are going to follow that with?!