Baker Artist Portfolios

Among our global challenges I'm often inspired by the intersections of science and culture, where so called 'facts' and the deeper mysteries within us collide. Hence my 'non-liniar' output. My aim is to create works which raise questions from the invisible through abstractions and metaphors. Being intuitive, I play with hints, suppositions and the margins of being as I go after the mystery. Can truth become a formula or does it die when placed upon a forced march by external demands?

Artist Statement
HANDLE FOR THE AXE

In my artwork, I have always dealt with tensions, harmonies, and metaphorical dichotomies that I express through visual and processual contrasts. Thus, alterations between different forms of casting and mark making, the relationship between the organic and the inorganic, and rhythmic, shifts between modulation and improvisation have always been at the core of my vocabulary as a ceramic artist. 
                                                                                                            

Skateboarding, Ladies of Wrestling, Waitresses

A series of life-sized graphite on paper drawings that represent my idea of a hypothetical army that could come together to solve the world's problems.

Looking for answers in the woods.

These are pieces I did right after 9/11 and in the following year or so.

There are four works in this group that I think of as the four emotional seasons of grappling with the events of 9/11 and all its ramifications to our world.

I've been collecting old keys for years. I believe that they hold onto a kind of history. When I went through a long period of being ill I struggled with how to keep working. I was forced to work small and create pieces where many small steps could eventually add up to something more.