Claire Loder’s Intriguingly Strange Ceramic Heads

It’s day 2 of Brown Paper Bag’s Ceram­ics Week! Today, let’s take a look at Claire Loder’s intrigu­ing heads…

I’m simul­ta­ne­ous­ly dis­turbed and enthralled by Claire Loder’s work. The strange and beau­ti­ful­ly-craft­ed ceram­ic pieces have an air of mys­tery about them. We see their soft facial expres­sions as well large, for­eign-look­ing growths that cov­er the entire­ty of their face. Loder speaks about the con­cept behind her heads:

Since august 2005 I have been pre­oc­cu­pied with mak­ing heads and faces, explor­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties for psy­cho­log­i­cal nar­ra­tives. Con­tem­pla­tion and melan­choly are per­pet­u­al under­cur­rents. As I rarely deal with any­thing below the neck I’m inter­est­ed in the head as a metaphor for the com­plete body.