One thing about Dale is he's a major collector and he's a collector of Americana. He's a really specific collector. He likes to collect a lot of thing in different subjects and one of the passions he has is for American Indian blankets.
Some of these pieces are huge. This is some of the biggest blown pieces that exist.
Old tin toys, old radios. He has little soldiers, old board games, transistor radios, luggage, classic luggage. We have way more than what we could put in this studio so we could do this studio many times over with his collections.
He's here to make art history and the fact is that no one before him has done these projects to this scale; he thinks big so he wants to act big and as he's gotten bigger he's gotten to live his dreams out.
Each one of these light boxes represents a different type of Chihuly glass.
