KQED which carries a bunch of PBS programming in the Bay Area played "Chihuly in the Hotshop" last week to promote the exhibition which is at the De Young Museum......It is essentially Chihuly working with his teams to recreate works from his previous series'...in front of an audience at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.
It was so interesting to hear him talking of finding Japanese Fishing Floats washing up on the shores of Washington when he was a boy.....the floats are blown glass spheres attached to nets with what are essentially rope baskets....the floats get away from the nets and become trapped in a large circular current system in the Northern Pacific until storms set them free.....
www.chihulyatthedeyoung.org
