Fiona's Secret World: Exotic Language for Crystalworks

By Fiona Old

Royalty are known to frequent the Crystalworks Gallery when visiting Vancouver. World travelers that they are, they are said to rank the gallery highly in its genre, though the question really is whether there is any place comparable. Certainly it is the first in the world to showcase museum- sized crystals and minerals.

Karen Lipsett-Kidd, cofounder, with her mother Susan, of Crystalworks STAR CLUSTER, QUARTZ CLUSTER, Brazil describes each 33cm x 70cm x 40cm (55kg) of the natural specimens in the gallery as being "the result of a creative, transformative process that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago." This large collection of crystals, fossils, minerals and stones from around the world enables me to bedeck this article with vocabulary such as black tourmaline, lepidolite, golden calcite crystal, agatized stalactites, and pink quartz druse. The colours are positively visceral in their vivacity. "Turquoise" takes on new meanings in one?s visual brain: deeper shades of aqua, cobalt blue, peacock blue.

Thinking of fractals, I read in The Crystal Bible of how crystals may be formed out of the same mineral but will crystallize out differently. The external asymmetry is an outward expression of its internal order. The internal structure of any crystalline formation is constant and unchanging. The crystal could be a metaphor for the successful, creative expanding corporation, reaching into it?s environment and administered by highly organized executives out on a Vancouver Shopping By Appointment tour, seeking to find a gorgeous geological Corporate Gift at Crystalworks Gallery!

-Fiona Old
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