Baker Artist Portfolios

I work between architecture, drawing, and speculative practice, using the house, the pattern, and the interface as instruments for examining how imagination operates under contemporary conditions. Although my training and professional life are rooted in architecture, this work steps outside its conventions, treating architecture not as a service discipline but as a cultural medium shaped by language, memory, and mediation.

Drawing is my primary mode of inquiry. I work with a fountain pen in sketchbooks and through digital interfaces, treating the screen not as a neutral tool but as an active framework that conditions how marks are made. Whether an image begins on paper or within software, each drawing probes how form carries meaning and affect when authorship is shared between hand, device, and procedure. Resolution is deferred in favor of accumulation, repetition, and variation.

Imagined dwellings recur throughout the work. In projects such as Oneiric Houses and Word Houses, the house is approached as a conceptual construct—shaped by narrative, language, and interior life—rather than a functional object. Other projects confront the present more directly. Touch and Trace translates habitual interface actions into drawings and patterned fields, exposing how bodily behavior is quietly standardized by screens.

Across the portfolio, architectural thinking is present but unsettled. Editorial and publishing projects extend this inquiry into discourse, examining how tools and authorship recalibrate creative judgment. This work resists solutions, operating instead as a sustained investigation into how imagination adapts under mediated conditions.