Blown glass is an unusual and complicated medium in which ply your trade as an artist. Dale Chihuly is a master of this medium that is at once both fragile and enduring.

He runs a studio in the style of an Italian Renaissance studio. As master he designs and directs a collection of artists under his leadership in the production of magnificant sculpural pieces.

The Green Man is completely fascinated by his chandeliers. As Chihuly describes them himself

What makes the chandeliers work for me is the massing of color. If you take up to thousands of blown pieces of one color, put them together, and then shoot light through them, now that's going to be something to look at. Now you hang it in space and it becomes mysterious, defying gravity or seemingly out of place. Something you have never seen before.

Visit his site to see more of his awe inspiring art.