Pulse
Single Channel Video, Sound, and Glass Installation
‘Pulse’ (2019) marks Baker’s expansion into moving image, where video is projected across a dispersed field of over one hundred sinuous glass forms.
The fragmented surface refracts and destabilizes the image of Australian performer Leeanna Walsman, whose presence appears to drift, fracture, and reassemble across the sculptural plane.
A sparse, percussive soundtrack of hollow knocking reverberates through the installation, evoking an uneasy sense of containment, as though the figure were suspended within the glass itself.
‘Pulse’ (2019) installation view, single-channel digital video, sound, kiln-formed glass, 180cm diameter.
Video and sound produced by doeanddoe studio, featuring performance by Leanna Walsman, photograph by Brendan McGeachie
‘Pulse’ (2019), installation at Smokestack Gallery, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra
Balancing material intensity with ephemeral projection, ‘Pulse’ operates at the threshold between body and matter. The work meditates on states of loss, transcendence, and corporeal limitation, as light and shadow flicker across the fractured glass in a restless, crystalline field—suggesting both rupture and suspension in time.
‘Pulse’ (2019) detailed view
