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.