About The Artist

Lilith Lee (32) is a queer, Black, autistic sculptor, designer, and performance artist based in the DMV. She is the creator behind GLTNI, a vibrant world where cake faces are ancient demons, tiny fairy “konsters” hide in plain sight, and every piece has its own playful, mischievous personality.

With a background in graphic design, Lilith approaches her work with bold visual sensibilities. Her love for striking colors, dynamic composition, and intentional presentation shapes everything she creates, from her sculpted pieces and cake-sitting performances to her logo, website, and overall brand identity. Every element of GLTNI is designed to be immersive, memorable, and unmistakably hers.

After five years in the professional baking world, Lilith stepped away to reclaim her joy and explore her imagination freely. Her work explores identity, nostalgia, sensory experience, and the tension between sweetness and chaos. Each piece is maximalist, highly detailed, and deeply personal, reflecting her lived experience and inviting audiences to slow down, engage, and discover the unexpected.

GLTNI is more than art. It is a reflection of Lilith herself, vibrant, mischievous, unapologetic, and uncontainable. It is not about the why, but the why not.

Artist Statement

Imagine if your birthday cake from your 9th birthday suddenly winked at you, sprouted spidery lashes, and whispered a secret about the universe. That is basically what GLTNI is, a world where food has souls, teeth, eyes, and occasionally a very sharp sense of humor. I make cake faces that are ancient demons, fairy creatures, mischievous little “konsters,” and sometimes just a tongue or an eye floating in a swirl of bright colors. Some are terrifying. Some are adorable. Some are both at once. All are a little bit me.

I started making cakes to escape. My birthdays were mostly alone, so I poured my joy, longing, and weirdness into creating celebrations for other people. Weddings, birthdays, parties, the stuff I did not have I gave to others. And there is this deliciously ironic tension in that, crafting moments of sweetness while life behind the kitchen door was anything but. Domestic chaos, sensory overload, trauma, it all hides inside the frosting and under the fondant. And now? That tension is my fuel.

The work is messy, loud, and layered. My sculptures are maximalist; you could look at one every day for the rest of your life and still find something new, a tongue wrapping around a fairy’s arm, an eye blinking, a slice of cake that is slightly melting but still watching you. Cake sittings, yes I literally sit on my cakes as performance, let me feel grounded, present, connected. The sculptures, the textures, the chaos, the audience, all sensory, all alive, all me.

My pieces are not for the hungry, at least not in the usual sense. They are for slowing down, for feeling, for noticing how the world presses on us all at once. Bright colors lure you in, but the subtle discomfort hits just beneath the surface, the way life feels when your senses are always on overdrive, when joy and unease collide in every bite. And yes, there is hyper sexuality, humor, weirdness, the tongues, the wrappings, the playful chaos, it is all part of the landscape.

GLTNI is my world. It is joy and rebellion, chaos and tenderness, sweetness and horror. It is an invitation to sit awhile, notice the details, taste the absurdity, and maybe even see a little of your own nostalgia reflected back at you, in buttercream frosting, clay, paint, or whatever strange little soul pops out next.

Step in. Look closely. Maybe blink twice. The cake is watching.