Kait Rhoads – My Blog

Kait Rhoads (b. 1968) Dogeressa, 2004 Blown glass, green and blue hollow Murrine with copper wire and steel stand 11 x 9 x 6.5 in. Photo: Alex Hochstrasser

Water was brought and Perseus washed his hands, Triumphant hands, and, lest the snake girt head Be bruised on the hard shingle, made a bed Of leaves and spread the soft weed of the sea Above, and on it placed Medusa’s head. The fresh seaweed, with living spongy cells, Absorbed the Gorgon’s power and at its touch Hardened, its fronds and branches stiff and strange. The sea-nymphs tried the magic on more weed And found to their delight it worked the same, And sowed the changeling seeds back on the waves. Coral still keeps that nature; in the air It hardens; what beneath the sea has grown A swaying plant, above it, turns to stone. Ovid’s Metamorphoses (IV.740-752)

Return to the Game Changers Gallery website: www.kaitrhoads.com Kait received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1993, her MFA from Alfred University in 2001 and in the same year she received a Fulbright grant to study sculpture in Murano, Venice. She uses traditional Italian techniques as a base to create sculpture, vessels and jewelry. Her collections include the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of Northwest Art, the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum and the Shanghai Museum of Glass. She maintains a studio in Seattle, WA. The aquatic realm is the root of much of my work, the result of spending six years

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on a boat in the Caribbean in my youth and where I also learned to dive. In particular I am drawn to forms that describe influence and reaction, which is linked to my early survival mechanisms. I see the Soft Sculptures as a type of hyper-reality or memory of an interaction with the world around me; an occurrence absorbed in my brain as a multilayered sensory experience that creates an emotional footprint. For the most part my work is inspired by nature; the end product being stylized or cartoon like forms made of sparkling faceted glass. The animal in the sea that I feel the closest affinity to is coral. There are so many different kinds, both ridged and soft; their basic building block a hexagonal tube made of calcium carbonate. Like bees constructing wax cells to fit any negative space, coral colonies exist in endless variation. Since my move to the North West fifteen years ago I have found the same fascination for the seaweed and kelp here, their curious and pliable forms above and below the waves providing endless inspiration. I think of the individual units; the hollow murrine as architectural elements fitting together creating a fluid or floating object, their orientation determining the curvature of the form. After a decade of working with the hollow murrine I am continuously engaged in refining their methodology of construction and in their production process. I create the Soft Sculptures in a pace that is slow and meditative, subtracting or adding material as the sculpture takes form, affording time to make the necessary changes. This being a welcome counterpoint to my experience of working for two decades in the hotshop, where speed is a premium. Return to the Game Changers Gallery