claudia poser celebrates nature’s drive towards growth and change

Simple shapes altered, grouped together, wearing universally appealing textures and patterns – all add interest to Claudia Poser’s ceramic pods. Poser, who has a PhD in Polymer Science, explains that she uses “an abundance of repetitive, organic shapes to explore nature’s instinctive drive toward reproduction, adaptation and survival that thrives in spite of human efforts to impose order.” Many of her pod arrangements are large wall pieces. Click on the images to see them larger – Damage has my wheels spinning.

Kinetic Energy, terra cotta, 41″x21″x3″ as seen on Flicker here

Damage, terra cotta, 41″x22″x4.5″

“The tension between order and emotion, the rational and the organic intrigues me. I find beauty in both natural and manufactured detail. My pods grow out of my fascination with nature’s instinctive drive towards growth and change.” Claudia Poser

Contained Energy, terra cotta and monotype, 12″x12″x2″

Bounce, terra cotta, 48″x24″x3″

Holy, terra cotta, photographs, hardware, and finished wood, 9″ x 22″ x 1.5″, 2009

See more of her most recent mixed media work like Holy [pictured above] here.

“My sculptures evolve from a glimpsed shape, a scrap of clay or a half-remembered dream. I’m motivated by those moments of fusion with the clay when time and judgment drop away and there is only touch and shape, light, shadow, and the beguiling chocolate texture of wet terra cotta.” Claudia Poser