In 2005, Cay began combining ceramics and paintings: clay morphing into canvases and glazing in a painterly manner. The second generation of canvases lifted up from a flat surface into three dimensions with clay folding over the edges representing tucked fabric, a nod to trompe l'oeil. Realism and control depart when, in the house of three: artist, kiln and glazes, the cooled kiln reveals chance results. The outcome can be intoxicating.
The work started in 2010 visualizes what parallel and meta-universes, concepts from the scientific community, might look like. In Quantum Mechanics exact subatomic particles found in two places create a mystery of how, where and when the distance was traveled. Scientists now conclude that there is no travel but rather parallel and meta-universes where both or many exist. It is this space “in-between” here and there that Cay finds interesting. Looking in between the canvases and on the edges the viewer may find as much interest there as on the flat plane. If parallel universes exist in the subatomic world, is it possible that they exist psychologically, spiritually and during sleep or while making art?
Overtly or covertly and historically, the use of the circle, square and triangle is a repeated design element in Cay’s work, quietly reminding her of simplicity’s potency in life and in art. 
