Local Economy Art: Francis Baker on Beauty and the Anthropocene

If you've been into the shop in recent weeks, you've seen Francis Baker's work on our walls. Baker is showing a selection of his art from the last several years, including work from Chasing Storms, My Plastic Life, and flowers for the Anthropocene. These pieces are created through camera-less photographic techniques in which plastic fragments and found materials are arranged directly onto light-sensitive paper and exposed to the sun. The resulting images function both as landscape and evidence, traces of consumption transformed through light, heat, and time.
Come learn more about Baker’s practice and how his use of everyday materials investigates the human impact on the environment.