BIO

Luna Mara is a Dutch maker and ceramicist that collects and develops her skills through traveling and living in different places of the world. She currently lives and works in Amsterdam, where she mostly focuses on hand-building ceramics, making textile wall pieces, and developing her visual vocabulary. Feeling a deep connection to the generations before her results in a longing to make like the ones before her did; simple and in connection to nature. Luna uses techniques that haven’t changed in thousands of years, while exploring shapes that have existed just as long, next to ones she didn’t know existed.

STATEMENT

Using a variety of hand-building methods enables me to work slowly, resulting in pieces gradually emerging from my hands throughout multiple days or even weeks. I shape, let it rest, observe from different angles, reshape and step away when needed, all the while peacefully accepting the natural imperfections that hand-building has to offer. The final artifacts are one of a kind sculptural pieces that have captured a fragment of an ongoing conversation between maker and material.

PHOTOGRAPHY “THIS IS WHY THEY CALL IT A BODY OF WORK” Art direction: Luna Mara, Amber & Wolf Photography: Amber & Wolf.