Excerpt from the information plaque:
Looking like horns of plenty, Chihuly's old wooden rowboats are filled with various glass forms. The idea for Boats arose in 1995 in Finland, where he floated pieces of glass downstream in a river. Local teenagers retrieved them in rowboats. This inspired Chihuly to make boat installations, here combining his earlier Niijima Floats and Ikebana series. The spheres recall small glass fishing net floats he found as a child on the shore of Puget Sound in Washington, while his name for the series relates to his visit to Niijima Island, Japan in 1989. The Ikebana series' name refers to the art of Japanese flower arrangement.
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