We're here at Chihuly Garden and Glass celebrating our inaugural presentation
of Winter Brilliance with projection mapping.
This is a show that we are planning to run every winter.
It's currently open from now until end of February 28th, 2023.
Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Washington
he is known for his glass work that is been shown all over the world.
Chihuly has been fascinated with ice as a medium.
He did his first installation of Ice and Neon in Tacoma in 1992,
and then later he was asked to do an installation
at Sleeping Lady in Leavenworth, Washington, and that was
the first time he really started working with the icicle form itself.
And so in 2015, he was asked by the creative director of Barneys New York,
to do an installation using a winter theme in the flagship windows.
And then it was installed here in 2021,
but the interactive experience just opened today.
What we have done
is create a video mapping concept
that gives life to the glass.
It adds vitality through color and light intensity
and really kind of creates a very unique environment.
We’ve put in are an array of projectors that project onto the glass.
And so the way that the glass refracts all this light is it
causes the light to appear as if it's emanating from within the glass.
If you start looking at the center of the cluster over there,
you can see how like just kind of feels like it's just pulsating out,
and all this is all tied back to the music.
So, right now it's going through some blue,
some whites.
When people come to see Winter Brilliance, we are hoping that
they are overwhelmed with light in a color in a way that they've never been before.
It's absolutely an immersive, tranquil, beautiful experience.