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A square-format light artwork by British artist Lauren Baker titled Slowing Down Time. Across a chalky white surface densely strewn with shards of broken glass, a continuous line of white neon traces a wavy hourglass shape: the line runs in from the upper corners, curves inward to pinch at the centre, then opens out again toward the lower corners. The surface itself bulges and recedes like terrain seen from above, the glass fragments gathering thickly at the top and bottom of the frame and thinning toward the middle, so the composition reads as sand falling through the waist of an hourglass, made of glittering, brittle shards rather than soft grain. The neon's glow illuminates the texture around it, casting soft shadows that give the white surface a moonlike, otherworldly relief. Lauren Baker | Slowing Down Time
An angled close-up of Slowing Down Time, the light artwork by British artist Lauren Baker. The photograph looks across the piece's sculptural surface: in the lower half, hundreds of small glass shards lie embedded in the chalky ground like shattered mosaic, each fragment catching its own faint highlight. Above them, the surface rises into smooth, pale relief like eroded terrain, and the white neon tube curves across the boundary between the two zones, its soft glow tracing the contour line where the shards give way to smooth ground. The perspective emphasises the work's physical depth and texture: this is a surface built up in layers, light resting on a landscape of broken glass. Lauren Baker | Slowing Down Time | Side View
A styled interior photograph showing Slowing Down Time, the neon and glass artwork by British artist Lauren Baker, hung centrally on a pale concrete wall in a warehouse-style room. The slim white frame holds the glowing neon hourglass, its wavy line pinching at the centre and opening toward the corners, the glass-shard surface beneath it reading as subtle texture at this distance. To the right, an exposed brick wall, a tall black-framed window and a potted palm warm the space, and herringbone wood flooring runs below. Daylight falls across the wall in soft diagonal shadows, and the artwork's gentle white glow holds its own against it. The shot shows the framed work at scale in a lived-in space, its quiet monochrome presence sitting comfortably in both raw and refined surroundings. Lauren Baker | Slowing Down Time | In Situ

Lauren Baker

Slowing Down Time, 2022
White neon, glass, mixed materials, white box tray frame
122 x 152 x 8 cm
48 x 59 7/8 x 3 1/8 in
£ 18,000.00
Lauren Baker, Slowing Down Time, 2022
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) A square-format light artwork by British artist Lauren Baker titled Slowing Down Time. Across a chalky white surface densely strewn with shards of broken glass, a continuous line of white neon traces a wavy hourglass shape: the line runs in from the upper corners, curves inward to pinch at the centre, then opens out again toward the lower corners. The surface itself bulges and recedes like terrain seen from above, the glass fragments gathering thickly at the top and bottom of the frame and thinning toward the middle, so the composition reads as sand falling through the waist of an hourglass, made of glittering, brittle shards rather than soft grain. The neon's glow illuminates the texture around it, casting soft shadows that give the white surface a moonlike, otherworldly relief.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) An angled close-up of Slowing Down Time, the light artwork by British artist Lauren Baker. The photograph looks across the piece's sculptural surface: in the lower half, hundreds of small glass shards lie embedded in the chalky ground like shattered mosaic, each fragment catching its own faint highlight. Above them, the surface rises into smooth, pale relief like eroded terrain, and the white neon tube curves across the boundary between the two zones, its soft glow tracing the contour line where the shards give way to smooth ground. The perspective emphasises the work's physical depth and texture: this is a surface built up in layers, light resting on a landscape of broken glass.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) A styled interior photograph showing Slowing Down Time, the neon and glass artwork by British artist Lauren Baker, hung centrally on a pale concrete wall in a warehouse-style room. The slim white frame holds the glowing neon hourglass, its wavy line pinching at the centre and opening toward the corners, the glass-shard surface beneath it reading as subtle texture at this distance. To the right, an exposed brick wall, a tall black-framed window and a potted palm warm the space, and herringbone wood flooring runs below. Daylight falls across the wall in soft diagonal shadows, and the artwork's gentle white glow holds its own against it. The shot shows the framed work at scale in a lived-in space, its quiet monochrome presence sitting comfortably in both raw and refined surroundings.
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Slowing Down Time is a recalibration of time and perception. In white neon, glass and mixed materials, Baker builds a wavy-outlined form that borrows the silhouette of an hourglass, the...
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Slowing Down Time is a recalibration of time and perception. In white neon, glass and mixed materials, Baker builds a wavy-outlined form that borrows the silhouette of an hourglass, the oldest symbol of measured time, and bends it: during meditation, the artist explains, time feels like it bends and slows, so the outline wavers where a clock's would hold straight. Inside, shards of chalky white glass appear to trickle downward like sand through an egg timer, but these fragments are thoughts, memories, concepts and stories, brittle enough that they seem they could cut. The work grew directly from Baker's Ten Days of Silence, the meditation retreat from which she emerged with a practice of making stillness visible. Where the hourglass narrows, the piece opens outward into an expansive, moon-like terrain of white, representing the expansiveness that opens up once the hourglass bends into a timeless space of possibility. Gentle waves of light create a visual language that loosens linear thinking and lets an internal rhythm become the primary architecture. The calm of deep meditation, she writes, holds bliss inside it; the work offers that stillness as both resistance and renewal, inviting the viewer into a quieter, more spacious way of being. Constructed in white neon and glass within a white box tray frame, the work measures H122 x W152 x D8 cm, its scale giving the falling fragments room to feel like a landscape rather than a device. A unique original artwork. £18,000.
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