In the series Mourning Portrait sculptor Loren Schwerd has found a way to use human hair in a series of works that evoke the loss of home - in this case, homes in New Orleans that were destroyed in the flood. The use of human hair plays on the persistence yet fragility of these homes - still there, but barely. It’s all that’s left. In some cases the hair spills out of the frame, refusing to be either contained or forgotten.

(Thanks Erin Z for the source)