Reflections streaking down the walls entice visitors entering Chihuly’s Garden And Glass Museum in Seattle to look up.
There is a sense of theatre – a disruption and human clustering – as each visitor lingers, their eyes irresistibly drawn up, necks and bodies circling to take in a carnival of colours that seem to be floating overhead; open, organic forms inspired by sea creatures, though none we know of, with bright, rainbow colours, ripples, ridges and stripes.
‘In creating the Persian Ceiling I was trying to create something that people had never seen before: so you walk under there and you look up and, all of a sudden, you have to start figuring out what you’re looking at – and what is it? – and how does it make you feel?’
Dale Chihuly
Susan Rushton 
What an amazing ceiling!
I can imagine sitting under it like a sun tan device for the soul.
Stunning!
It’s one of the first things you see when you enter the gallery so it sets the mood for things to follow.
Hooray for vivid color. This is one more item to add to the list of places to visit.
It’s perhaps an obvious point, but try to visit when the garden is in bloom if you can. I really admired the planting. It’s not natural, yet not unnatural either – like nature heightened.