A Year in Pictures – Dishware Dragon

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The Chinese Lantern Festival in Dallas also featured this lovely dragon, which (as you can see) is not made as a lantern, but rather consists of plates, spoons, and other such items wired together. It was a nightmare to photograph, because the head was swinging from side to side, and at low light levels the exposure time was not short. But as the copy-edited manuscript for Voyage of the Basilisk has just gone back to my editor, it seemed an appropriate time to post this image!

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Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

That is super-cool. Must email link to my lizard!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I hope she likes it!

[sarcastibich.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Gregg and I saw that exhibit when it was in St. Louis at their botanical gardens! Were there a bunch of lantern sculptures made of wire and silk, big installation pieces? Some of the pieces were made of glass or plastic bottles filled with colored liquid?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

The wire and silk sculptures, yes, but no glass/plastic bottles. I don't think this was a touring exhibition; I think it was something put on by a Dallas group.

[sarcastibich.livejournal.com]

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/things-to-do/events/special-exhibitions/lantern-festival.aspx

The exhibit the St. Louis site hosted was called "Lantern Festival: Art by Day, Magic by Night"