Randy Baker

Artist statement

My art addresses ideas of the modified human. Through out history humans have used the ideas of changing or modifying the human form to improve their own self image and self worth through scarification, tattoos, and piercing. Today’s technological leaps in modifying the human body are on the cusp of replacing our total selves with better parts and materials. By joining stone, clay and other materials to technology, I explore how we perceive ourselves through these modifications and the emotional impact each creates in re-creating ourselves in our own “best” image. What self voids we seek to fill may push humans into non-existence. How and why we are human may be defined as no more than the actual sums of are parts, literally.