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Burlington metal sculptor Kat Clear has another oversized work to add to her growing list of credits (the last was a 40-foot quilt for Fletcher Allen Health Care). This one’s a lobster, dubbed Libby the Langosta — the Spanish word for the critter — that’s mounted on the side of the aptly named Langosta Lounge in Asbury Park, N.J. Clear, now 30, once worked at a different eatery owned by the Lounge’s entrepreneurial proprietor, Marilyn Schlossbach, whom Clear calls “a serial restaurateur.”
A New Jersey native turned Vermonter — she graduated from the University of Vermont in 2002 — Clear maintains her ties to the Garden State, and it’s, um, clearly paying off. Her copper-colored crustacean measures 10 feet tip to tail, and 5 feet claw to claw, she says. At night it’s even more impressive; blue LED lights installed underneath the sculpture give it an ethereal outline. By day, viewers can see that Libby is a really big piece of origami, albeit in metal. Clear explains that its middle contains a bit of hand-blown glass — actually, “48 pieces of glass the light can shine through.” What’s not evident is that the angular arthropod is preggers. Well, not really, but Clear hints that a couple of offspring — call them boardwalk babies — will join Libby in the spring.
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Pamela Polston is the cofounder, coeditor and associate publisher of Seven Days. In 2015, she was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Pamela Polston is the cofounder, coeditor and associate publisher of Seven Days. In 2015, she was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.
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