Explore the profiles of this year’s graduating class.
Claire A. Baker
After visiting Chernobyl I was influenced by many aspects of this place post-atrocity; particularly the abandoned, ghost city of Pripyat there, finding it melancholic, atmospheric, emotional and incomprehensibly beautiful...
Taking inspiration from the sadness of the evacuated homes in Chernobyl, the layers, remains and the disintegration of past lives, the ghostly transparency of loss, dispersal and destruction, my work illustrates the effect of time.
Responding to the walls of those empty, abandoned apartments and the damp, decayed and disintegrating domestic wallpapers, I created papers evoking thoughts of loss and the sudden dispersal of peoples from what is now, a non-place.
Techniques employed during the making of the works are intrinsically linked to the concept and research directly correlating to the effects of the nuclear disaster on the people of Pripyat, Chernobyl. Using print and embroidery techniques, by working and reworking I have illustrated the layers of those deconstructed lives.
claire@claireabaker.co.uk
www.claireabaker.co.uk
Facebook: claireabaker2
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