Tamara Barrage’s interest in materiality explores shapes that become materials, and materials that become shapes. Often threatening while revealing an overwhelming sense of fragility, her creations are creatures of another realm—both unfamiliar and, if one looks closely, all too familiar. Using experimental techniques, she explores how forms and textures provoke senses, manipulate emotions and articulate memories. Her JACA vases are a collaboration between the world of design and nature, with the epoxy clay pieces borrowing textures from a Jackfruit.