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| Dale Chihuly, Sunset Herons, 2006, Climatron, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO |
Before James Cameron created the fantastical world of Pandora in the movie Avatar (2009), Dale Chihuly transformed the Missouri Botanical Garden into a mythical environment with his installation of colorful glass blown sculptures for the 2006 exhibition “Glass in the Garden.” One of the forty-eight site-specific works on display was Sunset Herons (2006), which was later purchased by the Garden with a gift from the Peters Family Charitable Fund (1). On a frigid day in January, I encountered a flock of these fanciful creatures nestled among the Climatron’s lush rainforest habitat.
