Glass — Frozen Time

Jay Lee's glass practice treats molten glass as frozen time — each cast piece trapping air bubbles that become permanent archives of breath at the moment of making. Training across Berlin Glass, Berlin Flame Studio, and UrbanGlass Brooklyn (15+ courses from 2022–2024) built a foundation in casting, blowing, and kiln-forming. In 2025, cast glass sculptures traveled to Svalbard, Norway with The Arctic Circle residency, where they were installed on glaciers and packed ice — exploring the parallel between geological ice (compressed over millennia) and handmade glass (frozen in seconds). The 'Attempt to Empty My Mind' series encases natural forms in transparent glass, while 'The Path' series placed glass sculptures along 70-meter thermal paper rolls across Arctic landscapes. At MNEMOSIS and Salon ACME no.13 (KOIK Contemporary, 2026), glass sculptures of rice and corn explored how staple grains can be preserved in glass as cultural memory objects.