Baker Artist Portfolios

I’m interested in the body as a site of simultaneous fascination and disgust. I like to explore the role that body modification plays in identity, and that relationship with desire. As a transgender man, I have a unique relationship with body modification. I modified my body in traditionally feminine styles off and on for 25 years while closeted, and that action - which is sometimes lauded as empowering - was a traumatic, violent experience. I think these two things can coexist.

Okay, so, Blood Gets In Your Eyes is about beauty and terror. It’s also about the trauma and futileism of trying to be somebody you’re not. In this performance I am forced to reapply a face of makeup after it is consistently washed away by running blood. To acquire this blood, I traveled to the warehouse district and paid the foreman of a meat packing plant in cash for an unmarked bucket.

The American pandemic : Homelessness in America is a significant issue, with a record-high 653,104 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023. A large portion of these individuals, 39.3%, are unsheltered, and the number of people entering emergency shelters has increased. Poverty, lack of affordable housing, and mental health and substance use disorders are major factors contributing to homelessness. The majority of homeless people in the United States have been homeless for less than one year

In Corpus et Anima (Body and Soul), the human form becomes both vessel and voice. Through a series of intimate, emotionally charged portraits, this collection explores the silent dialogue between flesh and spirit — the way our bodies carry memory, longing, resilience, and vulnerability.

2022-2023 Bogo La$ik catalogue of madness and desire during the artist’s last year in Ithaca, New York. https://bogolasik.bandcamp.com/album/stasis

Various Poems Across The Year

I have always been intrigued by flight, and as a result birds continue to be subjects that I observe and document, their personalities both in groups and as individuals are fascinating to me.

Following the Rapture, the world is left changed. I'll Follow Tomorrow by Jerrod Jordhal explores themes of loss, grief, and the difficulty in forging ahead in a time where "nothing matters anymore". Jerrod takes us inside a day in the life of some those left behind while the outside world bursts out into flames. The play takes inspiration from modern media such as: In The Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai, Songs from the Second Floor by Roy Anderson, and Wes Anderson's many films.