Cate Wind's work aims to visually capture and reproduce feelings from situations, experiences, crises and life cycles. Light and color play a central role in her work, along with the material glass. The work "It has happened, Life. Life happened."  is a dynamic and finely structured sculpture, in which it does not seem to be clear whether the yellow rods of glass penetrate a supposed "body" or grow out from the inside like thorns and spikes.
The work skillfully oscillates between violation and defense.

(Text Christof Zwiener)

It has happened, Life. Life happened.

Beam me up!

Reincarnation and Karma as repeating cycles of life that are connecting the past, present and future together is the topic of my installation Samsara. Even though we are reborn (=looping life itself), we have not recollection of the past life, but still they determine the existence our present body. Trying to uncover memories leaves us with an endless darkness in ourselves.

Samsara

My work "Sorry to the Flowers" consists of various artificial materials such as laboratory vessels, head massagers and colored handcrafted crown glass which cause sensory associations. By rearranging the various objects, a story emerges that stimulates senses, can be felt and empathized.  
Only through the particular distinctive combination of the objects, something new emerges which is more than the individual parts themselves. It can be understood like a language, like sentences composed of individual words. As a new combination, the whole conveys a new message. Sometimes it also happens that combined objects do not want to belong together, do not fit together. Then I step back and simply let myself drift and float, because I don't want to force anything, but rather resonate with what is given. However, when the objects find each other - it is almost magical.

In relation to my creative process for “Sorry to the Flowers”, it is important to know that my reflection on the subject is not meant to be an identical replica of reality, but the creation of another reality that resembles the first, but without copying it - so I question the relationship between landscape image, image and reality.
In terms of content, I am focusing on the fragility and transience of nature that surrounds us in times of climate change. In the course of the last decades, flowers have bloomed earlier and earlier, indicating the constant warming of the earth. 

Since art can influence our reality, I wanted to visualize our misery with "Sorry to the Flowers" and create a feeling about the subject that is easily understood and therefore reaches many. Because most people are accessible through emotions. Shame, anger, fear but also joy and love are feelings that move us and direct our attention. For me it is like a satisfactory to make something comprehensible - to visualize it.


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