2024
protector portraiture
collaborations with light, air, sun, cyanotype, flowers and plants, and people. A process of emergence.
Approximately 5x3 feet
Sarah Luella Baker
Projects
2025
World/s
Created as a collaboration with the spirit world. Color and chalk pastel. Forms began to emerge through linework and states of meditative awareness. The body guides the process.
2023
Son of a Bitch
Biting at the heels of my 10-year-old son’s traumatic event of bullying. A mother’s rage. Marks of red and black. A dog. A Bitch. Howling. Biting. Crying. Screaming. Pastel. Charcoal. Colored Pencil.
2023
Tranquil
Regaining equilibrium through color, touch, rough finger pads. Landscapes of soft blended pain.
2022
Spectral
Larger-than-life characterizations of plants and flowers are drawn as palimpsests overformerly-human portraiture in these charcoal works. I walk through the garden,collecting the sounds, colors, scents. I enjoy the quick and clear symphony of voicesand textures. I approach. Ask. Give gratitude. Transport, and begin. I pick a previously-rendered charcoal portrait of a person, and smear; the image fades, and makes roomfor the plant to take the foreground. Using an intuitive and flowing style of mark-making with both charcoal and eraser, the plant-life is carved out and emerges as asolo figure.
2021
SOLUTIO: transformation by water
Inner and outer topography, lineage, deep feminism, the intersections of personal and archetypal reckoning.Asemic messaging, symbols arriving for consideration. The compass rose, the triangle, the square. Simple symbols, and also ancient in their messages of directionality, the archetypal feminine and masculine, and the lines in-between. Buoyed by a lifetime of study with the body through movement and sound. Improvising with movement or sound/music, before understanding what I am meant to create. Ritualizing artmaking by connecting with ancestral or guiding spirits, who offer inspiration or messages. Collaborations with ink, salt, and paper/tree, the elements of water, mineral, and wood. Touch or tactile communications with the materials before creation.
