Tiles pave path for flights of fancy
Artist turns clay into delightfully complex statements on nature
By Dorothy Shinn
Akron Beacon Journal art and architecture critic

Katherine Triplett's clay tiles make you think of sandy beaches, cool dark forests, caves, deep pools, sparkling streams, pebbles on the shore, fertile fields, autumn harvests, the wild and untamed things that move past our windows in the night. Her hand-built, slab–made squares, 10 by 10 by 2 inches, hold remnants of things, echoes of life at its most insistent and evocative: bird's eggs, the imprint of a cockle shell, the scrape of a bear claw, animal bones, an arrowhead, a picture of hands touching. That's probably why her work A Small Smooth Stone was among the first to be chosen to decorate the lobby of Summa's new Specialty Health Center, 95 Arch St.

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