Genuine Murano: Submerged and Filtered, No.1
A Site-Specific Installation by Linny Morris Cunningham
June 18 ö June 23, 2002

This outdoor installation was on view at the bottom of TCM's swimming pool in Makiki Heights. An underwater garden, rippled with a crosshatching of refracted light, was created from a portion of artist Linny Morris Cunninghamâs collection of hundreds of vintage glass bowls and dishes blown by artisans in Murano, Italy during the 1950s and 1960s.

Cunningham views the installation as "a sort of glass convention, a gathering of the tribe of these exuberant organic shapes and colors with lavish applications of pearl essence, glitter, gold and silver leaf." This was Cunninghamâs second glass installation within the past year, the first being a spiral, nearly 35 feet in diameter, of a graduated spectrum of flower-shaped Venetian bowls on a North Shore beach.