Mara Baker
I mine both materials and space to find residues of the past, the past-present, the future-present. I am inspired by histories; both imagined and real, minuscule and epic, forgotten and memorialized.

Some sample histories include:

- a winter’s long supply of road salt
- a synthetic sponge
- the relationship of soap to water
- an orange construction cord
- coney island destroyed by fire
- sewer systems
- the deterioration of the body
- the deterioration of a plastic straw

Underpinning all of the work is a desire to explore the performative and conceptual role of deterioration and residue.