Lauren Baker | Do You Want To Change The World With Me (Pink)
Lauren Baker | Do You Want To Change The World With Me (Pink) | In Situ
Lauren Baker | Do You Want To Change The World With Me (Pink) | Side View
Lauren Baker
Do You Want To Change The World With Me? White, Extra Large, unique,, 2021
White neon mounted on Perspex
Diameter 200 cm
Diameter 78 3/4 in
Diameter 78 3/4 in
£ 18,500.00
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The question, at scale. This is the extra-large rendering of Baker's most direct public work: the words Do You Want To Change The World With Me? bent in white neon...
The question, at scale. This is the extra-large rendering of Baker's most direct public work: the words Do You Want To Change The World With Me? bent in white neon script and arranged around the circumference of a two-metre Perspex circle, the sentence orbiting the panel's edge so that reading it is itself a small act of circling the invitation. At this diameter the piece stops being a wall work and becomes architecture: a moon-sized question, a porthole of light, something closer to her public installations than to a domestic neon. The intention is the artist's own: the artwork poses a question, it's an invitation, and it is intended to activate your soul's higher purpose for the greater good. The work was born in public space, commissioned for Kensington and Chelsea Art Week and installed at Duke of York Square, then shown in Connaught Village as part of the public light trail that carried her messages through Westminster ahead of the Cop 26 climate conference, a direct question posed to strangers in the street. White, rather than the pink of the smaller editions, strips the question of sentimentality: it reads as pure invitation, cooler and more monumental, the colour of starlight rather than affection. As a unique piece rather than an edition, it stands as the singular, definitive statement of the work's idea, the question asked once, at the largest scale the artist has given it. White neon mounted on Perspex, diameter 200 cm, unique. £18,500.