Sugarbeet Gottfried Sculpture

Linda Luse's artistic practice reflects seemingly dry themes such as work, debt, economics, agriculture and daily life. Through her installations and sculptures, she presents the ambiguity of these everyday topics. In her ceramic works, contemporary materials fuse with traditional and ancient ceramic techniques. Pressed moulds, slip casting and inventive hand building techniques are combined to create organic and fragile composite sculptures. Her self-created glazes incorporate waste products from industrial agriculture, such as leaves from sugar beets, corn, and nettles, which are included in the glaze as ash. Fungicides, herbicides and insecticides also influence the chemical balance of the plants, which appear in ash glaze as brown, green, red impurities. Luse’s installations are dedicated to highlighting issues such as globalization, mass production, and ecology.