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The Guardian reports that Seattle-based glass artist Dale Chihuly's new installation in Kew Gardens, London, has faced some unexpected resistance from the city's natural elements.

Though Chihuly designed the outdoor work which includes hundreds of fiery, onion-like squiggles shaped like trees bobbing on the surface of the gardens' lake in a mock-up of the site in his Seattle studio, he did not account for the strong English winds that are now causing a fair number of headaches for those rigging the installation, the Guardian reports.

"The onion shapes in the lake kept giving up and lying down in the pond, instead of standing proudly to attention," writes the paper. "Several of the riggers got soaked to the skin last Friday as they added more and more weights to the anchor cables - and still the wind blew and the spheres rocked and rolled over."

"I told them we should have installed a wind machine in the studio so we could check all this stuff, but would they listen to me?" one rigger, Tom Gray told the Guardian, as he wrestled "with hundreds of squiggles which will build into a flaming tree."

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