Art as Life
The Decatur Daily newspaper's fall issue of the Living 50 Plus magazine featured me and told the story of my life as an artist. It was an honor and a pleasure to share my artwork in print!
The marquis on the front of the Alabama Center for the Arts building showcasing my MFA Candidate Show.
"On Becoming" Triptych
Mixed media on canvas
48 x 84 inches
Char Baxter 2025
"On Becoming" - Integrating new media with traditional art
This has been a year of growing more deeply into the graduate school culture, the local community, and into my art.
Challenged with a graduate course focused on New Media, I chose to work in an experimental form of collage and layer digital elements into the art. It was something completely new to me - using traditional organic and handmade materials to create a large-scale triptych that tells a story of metamorphisis - of the changes that we all go through in life, in love and in art: the beginning or "The Spark", the chaotic middle stage, "The Forge" and the understanding phase, "The Knowing."
Throughout the creation of the triptych representing these three phases, I documented my work on my iPhone. Using a gimbal and a tripod, I tried to get the most interesting shots and videos of the process and ended up with over 40 hours of images.
With these images, I produced and edited a three and a half minute video to accompany the triptych in exhibits. I wrote original prose poetry to visually narrate the story of my art making, the materials used, and the intent behind the triptych art titled "On Becoming."
If you'd like to see it, just click on the arrow above "the art of creating" to the left.