Invited artist:ROBIN BAKER

This joined wood abstraction explores humanity’s separation from the world by investigating our use of natural resources. Often, the value of natural material is in its utility, there is no value inits natural state of being, it must be processed and made useful. Once a material has served use, it is discarded. My goal is to revive the value of these materials through another form of processing, the investment of time and the application of craft. The joinery techniques I use to create these sculptures require care and precision to make cuts that allow pieces to hold together without the use of mechanical fasteners. My hope is the labor I invest in making these sculptures will elevate the materials I use from trash back to something of value, not for its utility but simply for its being.

 

Title:Joined Abstraction #13

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I’mRobin Baker, an artist and educator working in Oklahoma. I received my MFA fromTexas A&M University–Corpus Christi in 2014 and my BA in Photojournalism from theUniversity of Kentucky in 2007.I was born in Toronto, Ontario, but I grew up in centralKentucky.Landscape and the natural world has always been important to me, but as I developed as a photographer, then a sculptor, and now as an artist working in a variety of media, the connection between civilization and the planet is my primary focus