Pipaluk Lake’s works of art offer the vision of magma in a continuous state of transformation, the image of the genesis of a world at the same time unknown and familiar, marvelous and scary. The works provoke numerous associations: strange flowers, imaginary growths and the underwater world, with an aesthetic that questions the idea of beauty and ugliness. Her work places on the same level the sophisticated and the rough, the noble and the poor matters: one reads in it the more or less visible meeting of the glass, made fluid by the heat, with the metal that structures, orients and supports. A support for a sensorial and emotional experience, her work prompts intellectual questioning: the vision of her works raises the question of their creation, which process is narrated by the matter itself. The letting go represents an important element in her art: it is the moment where the artist forgets his or her intention, his or her will, to follow what presents itself in the process of creation and to be carried along like a “tool”. She seeks