CFile, the global knowledge center for cutting-edge contemporary ceramics, has spotlighted Lauren Kalman’s Devices for Filling a Void as a FotoFile feature.

“They look to be the products of a twisted dentist-turned-fashion designer, a madman who exults not only in the appearance of his creations, but also in the discomfort and debasement they cause in the person who models them,” writes CFile General Editor Bill Rodgers. “I see it as jewelry that reaches an infernal ideal, a design that has moved beyond humanity and now resents us.”