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Show Sunday, September W, IW.TIUi DAILY tllRALI). fmra, (lass wizard. iDiamss see ion tileseirtt By PEGGY ANDERSEN I've always liked the idea of ice in the desert" Associated Press Writer SEATTLE Glass wizard Dale Chihuly, a flamboyant showman whose dazzling, delicate, outsize works have dangled over the canals of Venice and now glitter amid ancient stones in Israel, is building a new wall in Jerusalem's walled Old City. But this wall up to 60 feet long and 20 feet tall will be made of ice, melting in the desert sun as the barriers dividing people in the tense Mideast may someday melt away. Ice from an artesian well in 64 tons of an Alaska quarry slabs it, in 6- - by 5- - by is en route to Israel for the Oct. 3 installation, which may be the first Chihuly undertaking in decades that does not involve glass or plastic. "Alaska is about as far away as you can be from Israel," Chihuly mused one recent sunny morning at his Seattle boathouse studio on the shores of Lake Union near the city center. But the ice is "unbelievably clear" and perfect for this project. "I've always liked the idea of ice in the desert," said Chihuly, 57, who lived in an Dale Chihuly, artist light. "I work in plastic, glass, ice and neon all transparent materials that light can go through " he said. When people see these materials, "you're looking at light itself." His earlier ice installations dating back to the 1960s at the Rhode Island School of were laced with brilDesign liantly colored neon tubing, The ice wall will be lit from the outside, by the sun in the airt daytime and by port landing lights at night. "Shooting color through it" will be as dramatic as neon, Chihuly said "in some ways more dramatic The light will sear through the ice in beams, he said 4,500-wat- "No movement. Just boom!" Ice sculptors in Alaska call the ice he has chosen "Arctic diamonds," said Team Chihuly member Philip Stewart. In August, the ice was loaded into refrigerated trucks by Ice Alaska of Fairbanks and then hauled by rail to Anchorage, barged to Taeoma, trained to New Jersey and then put aboard ship for delivery Sept. 17 to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where it will be offloaded and trucked to Jerusalem. Stewart and other studio staff will arrive at Ashdod on Sept. 26 to help prepare the ice cleaning off the sawdust that cushioned it during shipping and shaving the block edges smooth and level for stacking. for our I sVt DITDSCTV It pays to advertise in THE DAILY HERALD 1351 Israeli kibbutz in 1962. Chihuly, whose own days ended in 1976 when he lost one eye in a car accident, oversees a glass-blowin- g studio oper- Renaissance-styl- e ation in which dozens of glass artists execute his visions. Coddled, beneficent and unmistakable with his electric ragdoll hair and black eye patch, he spins his dreams of light and color in a rambling boathouse crammed with workers, friends, and family. For his latest work, he'd considered projects in the Negev Desert and the Dead Sea, but decided on Jerusalem, exhibit at where a the Tower of David Museum "Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000," featuring thousands of pieces of fantastically colored and shaped glass has drawn 200,000 visitors o 4 Ar year-lon- g since July. Somehow he said. ULTIMATE CD it seems fitting, "Jerusalem proper was a walled city one of the great walled cities of the world," Chihuly said, with walls up to 60 feet high around the citadel that houses the museum. And the location of the ice wall, outside the citadel walls near a busy highway, will enable people to "see it for free without having to drive some- APY Introductory rate until 102799 where." The wall, which will melt within a week, could be seen It allows you to add money at any time. Opportunities to withdraw without penalty. It pays high market rates. as symbolizing the dissolution of other kinds of barriers. Or "melting tensions. Anything I could do to help melt tensions over there," he said. Td like to thi nk it will make people feel good. Jerusalem is still pretty divided, east and west," Chihuly said. "This happens to be right on the border. It could bring together Jews, Muslims and Christians from different parts of the city." The wall's form is still undecided, but some portions will probably be collapsed, Chihuly said. The big blocks will be fused together using dry ice. "Everything changes color, form," as the ice melts. The wall will initially be trans- parent, but over time "the sun will make it more textured, more milky" as the blocks melt, with "water running between them." 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