Pipaluk Lake

Denmark (Danish, b. 1962)
Pipaluk Lake started to work with glass after first studying carpentry and wood-carving and then textile design. She compares herself to a bespoke tailor, clipping pieces of sheet metal, bending, shaping and fixing them together to form a body, or binding metal around the glass to "sew" it together. "Heat-softened sheets of (window) glass can then be draped like textiles (and) the metal can be made to leave its mark on the glass, decorating the surface in a natural manner." For her, the process is a juxtaposition of "natural laws with the more undefined aspects of life." She refers to the organic forms and themes of Art Nouveau, the root of the modern Danish tradition, in addition to the  Expressionism that prevailed in 1980's painting in Germany and Denmark (when she was a student) as influences on her work.

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