Baker Artist Portfolios

This project is a sign of my FREEDOM, just allowing my hands and mind to move freely without a care. It's like taking a trip aboard the MOTHER SHIP. SOARIIIIINNNNGGGGGGG

portraits of self and others.

These collages explore alternative energy in landscapes.

Scenes of the destructive force of nature and the impact upon the built environment are depicted. Many of these events are forever etched in our memory, such as Hurricane Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami and Hurricane Sandy.

The topic of the natural versus the un-natural/built environment is one of the main themes of my work.

*Note: Some work in this category appears in other categories, which intentionally emphasizes the multi-layered aspect of my body of work.

I love writing music. I kinda like performing it. Performing can be really fun, and really cathartic, and really therapeutic, but the way it plays out today it's also kinda maddening and monotonous. Everybody knows how making money off of selling albums in the digital age is difficult, what with the piracy and literally everybody else involved (engineers, designers, publicists, etc) getting paid first and then having to split whatever's left right down the middle (hopefully) with the label. So pretty much every musician I've ever met makes the vast majority of their money by touring.

Made of images from art magazines and art history text books. The reproductions were cut to create the texture of a rope. Unraveling, nooses, and the fast approaching end of my life as a full-time student: this piece bridged the gap between pre-graduation terror in Baltimore City and post-graduation trauma in northern Virginia. This is a reflection on the juxtaposition between arts education and the reality of being an artist today.

?Misremembering A Monument To A Letter Writer? and "Misremembering The Sound On Me" are the incomplete re-installation of collages created in 2008 next to documentation of the original pieces. The 2008 version of the collages were cut into rectangles, several of which were either lost or given as gifts to friends and family. In 2011 the remaining components were re-assembled from memory and displayed alongside a reproduction of the original collage.

The Following project description penned by Janice Schuetzenhofer places the works you see here in context.

These works are about frustrated intimacy inter-between human hearts and their Father. It seems to be about overcoming bitterness, loneliness, blindness, numbness, and disillusionment. These are individuals that i know or have known and love. It is an ongoing collection of studies and ponderings.

Collage drawings on muslin with found objects, these works became about an exploration of my origins and childhood companions. What happens to us as we reach maturation and what are our perceptions of this as we shift? Someone whom I respect pointed out that the real work being formed was a new process which enabled works such as these to materialize. They are what happen when I learn to tune into my intuition and make honestly apart from a spirit of competition, achievement, or comparison.