Baker Artist Portfolios

A room with many doors, all opening to many different times and places. Crossing the plane of one could uproot everything or do nothing at all. Our mirrored image repeated endlessly, curling into different possibilities and manifesting the potential outcome of each decision. From this precipace we could gaze down on and evaluate everything. A room with no boundary, turning perpetually from edge to edge and back on itself. To see everything, and know finally what to do with absolute assurance. 
"I have seen such a place..."
"Will you take me there?"

A blur to see. To be wisked by world after world at no hesitation. To intake so much is exhausting. It is assurring.

From behind us the pin screamed into the equatorial plane of Hvaryouk on the night side. We watched it disapear into the crust and a shockwave began to spread from the point of impact. In seconds, Hvaryouk began to shudder from within and the hot red glimmers of magma began to form at the planet's plate divisions. It was as if the core had shaken off the outer layers. As the planet's outer structure began to unfold and enter orbit the first shreds of Hvaryouks crust passed by our ship.
"That was just barely sub-light..."
"We've nothing to fear."

Nature produces monuments and landscapes humanity can only ever dream to replicate. In essence this work accelerates and embellishes natural forms of accumulation and erosion. While it could be said that they are emulating nature, specific methods and materials are used to disrupt the relationship between our earth-bound perception and evoke the true synthetic characteristics within each piece. Jarring color changes and manic tooling are employed to convey alien topography and disrupt the immediate association to scenery that we collectively understand.

Working with slate is so satisfying.  Lisa love's getting her hands dirty cutting slate tiles into rods with a wet saw.  Each rod can then be shaped or splintered to create different shapes. These organic pieces can easily depict the Earth or create abstract pieces adorned with colorful glass bits or other organic material such as marble and shale.