George Wendell Baker
My work engages the symbols and languages of the occult, not to serve or celebrate them, but to reveal how they operate within human consciousness. The hidden, the alluring, and the forbidden are presented as mirrors—illustrations of the soul’s vulnerability to deception and its yearning for truth. These images are allegories, not invitations. I paint what tempts the mind to see how the spirit resists. Like the Gnostics, I understand the world as a veil of mixed signals: truth interwoven with distortion. My art seeks to disentangle the threads—to revel how the light of Divine Grace can be refracted through the glamour of illusion.

The innumerable corridors we pass within our timeline weave with others in a myriad of ways- some seen and some not. I have come to see consciousness as resonance in frequency, a dream-like simulation, and correspondence with unseen fields. This vision has me drawn to illustrate the shadows as well as the light that spills between.

As I began to consider life as timelines manifesting within an interdimensional landscape, I’ve grown curious about the internal and external enigmas influencing our perceptions. From a multitude of historic cultures, philosophers, and to simulation theorists of today, the notion of an abstract interplay between the physical world and astral dimension persists. The evidence that we are amidst a metaphysical clash between light and dark, truth versus deception appears amplified in recent years. And if we are, in fact, fated to some version of a prophetic shift, then instinct tells me we should leave a few breadcrumbs.

These works are rendered through a creative process involving models, references, and imagination. They are a humane and spiritual collaboration somewhere between observation and intuition- where the art happens for me.

I am grateful to share this journey with my little troupe at home. I hope you find a moment of pause when viewing this work.

Gw Baker  2024 South Taiwan

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Also known as George Baker or Gw Baker. Canadian painter and writer based in Taiwan.