“Material sensibilities continue in Maker’s Egg Cases (2025). Dense clusters of zinc-plated hex nuts, tinted tempered glass, and enlarged plastic egg case casted in bath stone powder, suggest both industrial assembly and marine environments. The surfaces of the nuts, topped with blue glass discs, catch the changing daylight, refracting it like ocean membranes and shimmering with the iridescence of shells or the gleaming, toxic sheen of spilled gasoline. Chan fuses industrial repetition with organic metamorphosis, highlighting humanity’s drive to create protective, efficient designs—cases that enable mobility and stackability, mirroring the circular economy. While humans shape environments to serve their needs, mollusks and other sea creatures must continually adapt to protect themselves from their changing realities.” (source: exhibition text, Klemm’s Berlin).

Leelee Chan: Maker’s Egg Cases, 2025. Part of the exhibition Spiral Diaries at Klemm’s in Berlin, Germany (May 2 – June 6, 2025). Zinc plated aluminum hex nuts, tempered and tinted glass, bath stone powder, 330 x 110 x 38 cm.