Lauren Baker | Auric Field - Truthwave
Lauren Baker | Auric Field - Truthwave | Close Up
Lauren Baker | Auric Field - Truthwave | In Situ
Lauren Baker | Auric Field - Truthwave | Side View
Lauren Baker
Auric Field - Truthwave, 2024
Ink with hand-embellished diamond dust on fine canvas, box tray frame
105.5 x 105.5 cm
41 1/2 x 41 1/2 in
41 1/2 x 41 1/2 in
Edition of 6
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Auric Field, Truthwave was created to elevate speaking inner truth. It is inspired by the throat chakra and the sixth layer of the auric field, and it brings in all...
Auric Field, Truthwave was created to elevate speaking inner truth. It is inspired by the throat chakra and the sixth layer of the auric field, and it brings in all the blues: the colour of expression, of the voice, of saying the thing that has been held back. At the centre of the blue artwork sits a symbol the artist made to represent time, because, in her words, truth always rises with time, the truth will set you free, and time is the ultimate teller of truths. While the busy have no time for truth, the wise dedicate their life to it. The work's making is as specific as its meaning. Each canvas in the Auric Field series begins with the artist listening to sound frequencies while she paints, and this one was made listening at 741 Hz, the Solfeggio tone believed to further the connection to intuition and truth; the sound, she says, really informs the energy and the hues of colour. Her colour blending carries two art-historical inheritances she names herself: Hilma af Klint's use of colour to depict spiritual dimensions, and Rothko's blending of hues to evoke emotional depth. The aura, the electromagnetic energy field that is the bridge between our spiritual and physical body, is the work's subject and its surface at once: a field of blue light scattered with hand-applied diamond dust, shimmering at the edge of seeing. Ink with hand-embellished diamond dust on fine canvas, in a box tray frame. 101.5 x 101.5 cm unframed; 105.5 x 105.5 cm framed. Signed and numbered from an edition of 6. £4,500.