Lauren Baker | What If
Lauren Baker | What If | In Situ
Lauren Baker | What If | Close Up
Lauren Baker | What If | On Wall
Lauren Baker
What If, 2025
Pink neon mounted on white aluminium box tray
88 x 115 x 8 cm
34 5/8 x 45 1/4 x 3 1/8 in
34 5/8 x 45 1/4 x 3 1/8 in
Edition of 6
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What if you walked away from certainty, followed the impulse, booked the ticket, started the project, trusted the fall, and it all turned out better than you ever imagined? Written...
What if you walked away from certainty, followed the impulse, booked the ticket, started the project, trusted the fall, and it all turned out better than you ever imagined? Written in glowing pink neon and mounted on a white aluminium box tray, What If turns a question into a mantra. The work doesn't answer; it holds the door open, and each line of the neon reads as one more step through it. The piece sits in Baker's lineage of typographic neon works, where language becomes light and light becomes belief, following works such as Choose Love and Everything Is Going To Be Fucking Amazing. Where those pieces make statements, What If makes an invitation: its power is the interrogative mood, the small "what" that turns a life sideways. The pink glow carries warmth and optimism, and against the clean white tray the words seem to float free of the wall, closer to thought than to object. Handmade in neon glass and mounted in a white aluminium box tray, the work measures 88 x 115 x 8 cm, its scale generous enough to hold the full question on a single wall. Signed and numbered from an edition of 6. £12,000.