Burnt scribbles were transformed into hand-sewn sound-wave letters to nature. During her ten days of silence she wrote and wrote. Pondering on existence and considering that which is beyond the self. The letters were love letters; to my ex lover, to my future lovers, to earth, to the wilderness, to the sky and the ocean. The loss, the hopes and the dreams, all released, all let go in the process of writing and burning letters. Baker used software to translate the spoken word of each letter into sound waves, once photographed, she burned them and hand sewed unique threads to immortalise the energy of each letter. Baker's work explores the fragility of life and new beginnings born from chaos and destruction. The letters weren't meant to be sent. The energy of the writing was enough to express and let go. To let the ripples of the thoughts be free.

Inspired by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which revealed over a 100 billion galaxies, presenting the true vastness and immensity of the universe. The new ‘Explosion’ artworks - part of The Immensity of The Universe series - explore the Big Bang and the intriguing beauty born from destruction and chaos. The selected books all explore notions of creation expanding from fields of philosophy, through to physics. The artist hired a quarry in which the books were exploded using pyrotechnics, before being further chemically aged, and finally crystallised.

Below is a link to a video showing how it was made:

https://vimeo.com/291169940