"It can break, shatter, or shift at any moment. That awareness of impermanence has long been an undertone throughout my work: a nervous hum beneath the surface."
"The material has become almost an extension of my hand and my body through mark-making and scale,"
"It's about precision and intuition coexisting-knowing how to shape the material and when to let the glass move on its own terms in the kiln."
"I was drawn to the way glass can induce anxiety-the uneasy power of beauty that could, at any instant, turn on its head. That instability felt like a mirror of the world around us: alluring, dangerous, and unpredictable all at once."
Kate Clements composes granular glass frit into delicate drawings of leaves, insects, and birds directly on a kiln shelf, fusing them into wafer-thin panels. She combines those glass panels with painted panels or suspends them in installations, often invoking wallpaper-like patterns and architectural motifs. The process balances precision and intuition: shaping the material while allowing the glass to move within the kiln. The work foregrounds fragility and impermanence, embracing the medium's capacity to react unexpectedly and transform. Large assembled pieces read as fragile, sugar-sculpture-like constructions that reflect anxiety, instability, and the uneasy beauty of risk.
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