“Clay Vorhes’s little figures playfully fly through space, sometimes suspended from a trapeze swing, at other times walking a tight wire, always “living dangerously,” to use Nietzsche’s phrase, in abstract space.  Each canvas is a Suprematist square, emblematic of modernism at its purest, intriguingly divided into a prismatic play of planes, each a sort of fragment of space pieced together to form an eccentric pattern, seemingly unstable yet clearly delineated and fixed in place.  It is as though Vorhes has pieced together a large stained glass that has broken into pieces, some of them trapezoidal in shape, alluding to the title of the series.  The broken geometry of the space becomes the expressive background for the self-expressive trapeze artists, seemingly performing effortlessly, and with even more exacting geometrical precision.”

-Donald Kuspit