Lauren Baker | High On Love - Pink
Lauren Baker | High On Love - Pink | On Wall
Lauren Baker
High On Love - Pink, 2023
Pink Neon
100 x 70 cm
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
Edition of 6
Two lovers, drawn in light. High On Love, Pink is an original neon work in which human features are rendered in glowing pink glass tubing, the line of the neon...
Two lovers, drawn in light. High On Love, Pink is an original neon work in which human features are rendered in glowing pink glass tubing, the line of the neon tracing a face, or two faces, the way a single continuous line drawing captures a likeness in one unbroken gesture. The title names the state the piece induces: love as intoxication, the heady rush of being seen by and seeing another. The work is the original behind Baker's celebrated High On Love print series of 2021, whose editions depict lovers with their features illuminated in hot pink neon. Where the prints freeze that light on paper, this neon makes it live: the tubes glow with the pulse of real light, throwing a warm rose halo onto the wall around them, so the lovers' presence in the room is felt as much as seen. Pink is Baker's colour of affection and the heart, and against the dark the glowing lines read as energy as much as anatomy, the aura of connection made visible. Handmade in neon glass, measuring 100 cm high by 70 cm wide, the piece hangs like a portrait yet glows like a light installation, at home above a bed or mantel where its warmth can be lived with. Signed and numbered from an edition of 6. £15,000.