Lauren Baker | Expect Miracles
Lauren Baker | Expect Miracles | Unlit
Lauren Baker | Expect Miracles | Side View
Lauren Baker
Expect Miracles, 2021
Pink neon mounted on white aluminium box tray
340 x 100 x 12 cm
133 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 4 3/4 in
133 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 4 3/4 in
Edition of 6
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Expect Miracles is a mantra in pink neon: two words, handwritten in glowing pink glass and mounted on a white aluminium box tray, that work less as a statement than...
Expect Miracles is a mantra in pink neon: two words, handwritten in glowing pink glass and mounted on a white aluminium box tray, that work less as a statement than as an instruction to the subconscious. The piece belongs to Baker's Expect family of neons, which began with Expect Magic and Miracles, first installed outside the Rosewood London hotel on High Holborn in 2020 to pass its message to everyone who walked by. The thinking behind the family is laid out in the artist's own text for its sibling work: we are bombarded with thousands of messages every day, and research suggests around 80% of our thoughts are negative, with 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts passing through a mind daily. Baker's neons aim to inject positive thoughts that seep into the subconscious and start a thread of high-frequency consciousness. Expect Miracles carries that intention in its most concentrated form: not a sentence but a stance, the two words that turn an ordinary room into a place where good things are allowed to happen. The warm pink glow against the clean white tray keeps the message optimistic rather than preachy, light doing what light does best in her practice, raising the vibration. Pink neon mounted on a white aluminium box tray, edition of 6, signed by the artist. £4,500.