Finn Baker - "Where Stories Repeat Themselves"

Hello, my name is Finley Baker, I am an interdisciplinary artist that makes work about the environment and personal identity. My video piece, ‘Where Stories Repeat Themselves’ is a memorial to the land around me. It is a personal archive of experience in the places I find myself exploring often. The videos that are the backdrop to the monotypes were collected over a three year period. They depict many different places such as Colorado, Nebraska, Utah and Texas, and many different moments like lightning in the Rocky Mountains, cows crossing an irrigation ditch, and herons in coastal marshlands, to name a few. 

The videos have been blurred and digitally integrated with monotypes - a printmaking process where I used intuitive additive and reductive mark making to create an image on a plexi glass plate and then I printed onto paper with an etching press. The act of creating the monotypes, the instances of reflection that were integral in their making, allowed me to further imbed the memory and experience of these moments into my psyche. By digitally blending the physical monotype with the video I am shifting the focus from the actual experience to the memory and reflection of the experience. When the small things, the stories of the land that resonate with us are gone, the memory will remain.

Art of the State 2022: A Juried Exhibition of Colorado
  1. alpert+kahn - "the capacity of illumination"
  2. Judy Anderson - "The Sound of Trees"
  3. Julie Anderson - "Refugee"
  4. Finn Baker - "Where Stories Repeat Themselves"
  5. Tree Bernstein - "Once in a Blue Moon"
  6. Tonia Bonnell - "Unfolding (Blue)"
  7. Scottie Burgess - "Loaded Logo"
  8. Michael Campbell - "Wild Earth"
  9. Al Canner - "Octopod"
  10. Taiko Chandler - "Shades of Grey #1"
  11. Joelle Cicak - "Our Ladon"
  12. Neil Corman - "Balconies"
  13. William Day - "TOGETHERNESS"
  14. Terry Decker - "GARDEN OF THE GODS"
  15. Chris DeKnikker - "Reunion"
  16. Irene Delka McCray - "All This Time"
  17. Chapin Dimond - "Gold Mountain Ring (CDr310-ss/18kry)" and "CDr511-MG-18krySleeve"
  18. Thinh Dinh - "Yellow Clouds & Green Skies V.1"
  19. James Dixon - "Phone"
  20. Nathan Dominik - "Growing"
  21. Nancy Eastman - "Desert Storm"
  22. Melissa Furness - "Every cloud has a silver lining"
  23. Gayle Gerson - "Golden Hour"
  24. Jody Guralnick - "hydnum imbricatum"
  25. Jane Guthridge - "Dancing Color 16"
  26. Wendi Harford - "Melon Drop"
  27. Karen Haynes - "Drifting In and Out"
  28. Deborah Jang - "We're not in Kansas anymore"
  29. Marston A. Jaquis - "Hints & Allegations"
  30. Erick Johnson - "Snowflake Feather"
  31. Junomatico (Kristina Davies and Charlo Garcia Walterbach) - "Soul Play"
  32. Susan Kane - "Fruita Grain Elevator"
  33. Margaret Kasahara - "Notation 33-20" and "Notation 12-21" and "Notation 22-21"
  34. Gayla Lemke - "Oh Monday, Monday, how could you leave….?"
  35. Nancy Lovendahl - "Culture 1.0"
  36. Mark Lunning - "Yes, the World is round"
  37. James Makely - "Cuff 13"
  38. Terry Maker - "Living and Breathing"
  39. Raj Manickam - "Juniper's Last Gasp"
  40. Joseph Manuel - "3 Angles"
  41. Betsy Margolius - "Riverfront II"
  42. Tom Mazzullo - "Two-part Invention No. 18"
  43. Sarah McCormick - "withinland"
  44. Chuck McCoy - "Form One Configured"
  45. Amy Metier - "By The Waters"
  46. Grace Morris - "Sobering Effects"
  47. Meredith Nemirov - "RIVERS FEED THE TREES #463"
  48. Al Orahood - "Limon 3"
  49. Tony Ortega - "La Troca Roja"
  50. Roger Reutimann - "CYBER DROPPINGS"
  51. Eileen Roscina - "Iris"
  52. Craig Rouse - "A Monday Afternoon"
  53. Gregory Santos - "Oopsie"
  54. Heather Schulte - "The Impetus of US" and "Control-Alt-Delete"
  55. Evan Siegel - "Westy"
  56. Brady Smith - "Structures for Coping no. 13"
  57. Robert Smith - "Bulbous saggar vase"
  58. Sharon Strasburg - "Granite Altar 2"
  59. Autumn T. Thomas - "Eccentricity"
  60. Lucas Thomas - "Debris"
  61. Floyd Tunson - "Worker Bee"
  62. David van Buskirk - "Samadhi"
  63. Becky Wareing Steele - "Portal from the series Models for Future Altars"
  64. Christopher Warren - "Plowshares: Altered Colorado"
  65. Pamela Webb - "Grounding Twig Set - Necklace and Earrings"
  66. Mami Yamamoto - "Life With Countless Optimism"