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September 30, 2006 Staff Photo by John Rottet [/assets/story/image_buynow.comp]
A glass ball floats amid bamboo poles and their shadows in a small pond behind the N.C. Museum of Art. The ball and bamboo are part of an installation for the upcoming Monet in Normandy exhibition. The installation is inspired by Monet's water lily pond, which in turn inspired some of the impressionist master's greatest paintings. Will Hooker, a professor at N.C. State University, and his students are installing 150 gazing balls in the pond along with a grid of bamboo poles. Museum staff member Joseph Covington said, ‘The gazing balls are similar to ones that grandmothers in the South have always put in their yards, and, like pink flamingos, have become more generally popular in recent years.' The balls were made by glass blower J.T. Smith and his sons of Marietta, Ohio. Smith delivered the 150 balls to Raleigh himself. The pond installation will be on view during the complete run of the Monet exhibition, Oct. 15 through Jan. 14.
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