Baker Artist Portfolios

Small Stories and Other Stories, a solo show at the Hamilton Gallery, collected over 80 dioramas that illustrated multiple storylines and themes. 

My favorite is the story of the widower tailor, which appears in the manlte clock. He discovers that if one looks through the handles of scissors previously owned by other widowed tailors/cloth merchants/seamstresses on the 13th day of the 13th month during a full moon, one can see into the Land of the Dead. He's collected many such scissors, and some of these appeared on the wall next to the clock in the gallery. 

I had been thinking of an encounter I recently had with a fox when the idea for this project began. I thought that what I felt when I saw the fox was a poem about memory because his quick, sharp legs reminded me of the hands of a clock moving. So I found an old travel clock and decided to make it into an accordion book. Then I wrote the poem and figured out how it could fit on the pages.

We collaborated with multimedia artist Zoe Friedman on an installation and performance in the clock room of Baltimore's Bromo Seltzer Tower. We composed and performed a 30 minute score to accompany a video installation consisting of seven projections on all four walls of the Clock Room in the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower. The videos were played simultaneously on all four walls of the room. Our performance incorporated and responded to the mechanical sounds of the elevator and clock machinery.

Working clock assembled using CD as clock face.

Other works from 2012.

List of Works:

1. I PUT ON MY SOCKS ONE PAIR AT A TIME, plaster cast of artist's feet, electronic candles, socks. Edition of 10. (Shown at Nudashank's "Gran Prix")

2. PUNCH CLOCK, pink insulation foam, clock parts, plexiglass, digital print, cardboard, punched hole in drywall. (Shown at Nudashank's "Real Time")

3. POPCORN SKELETON, popcorn, skeleton, glue. (Shown at Nudashank's "Real Time")

4. POPCORN SKELETON DETAIL

Diorama in a sardine tin with pen and ink on paper.

This series is called Images Placed In Lieu of Clocks That Still Tell You About Time. I scanned a clock at various resolutions to log the motion of the clock’s hour, minute and second hand. Depending on DPI, the motion of the second hand is captured more or less frequently, producing the image seen, as though the hand has been bent or chopped. Furthermore depending on the DPI of the image, the dimensions of the print will be larger or smaller. These images are to be hung seven feet from the ground, in lieu of a clock, regardless of the dimensions of the image.