BAKERBREW
BAKERBREW is a collaborative project between Maddie Baker and Ella Brew, situated at the intersection of sculpture and design. Their place-based practice is defined by shared interests in structural and visual systems around them. BAKERBREW quickly blurs between decay and preservation, logic and confusion, and machine and creature. Through both material and hand, time and memory are woven into a single surface—illuminating multi-layered records of fading imprints, and engaging in the creation of a strange new system.
Their project at GlogauAIR contained three facets:
A. A series of glowing objects: ceramic forms derived from common bricks and sewer grates, hybridized with transparent layers of vellum, resin, and various manipulated found images. A collection of street-found informational material (manuals, old textbooks, torn flyers...) serves as a corruptible image supply and color source within these objects.
B. Development of a new print practice: wheatpasting durable and translucent fabric posters in the street, tools for excavating past layers and capturing new ones. Once dry, leftovers are stripped and brought back to the studio. The constant action unfolding at public sites is used as a mark-making process—resulting in hyper-aged landscape drawings on muslin.
C. Cataloging of photos and manipulated found material for an upcoming book project.
