To contextualize Baker Cahill’s ongoing creative entanglement with literature and her digital practice, which is the focus of the new work she is currently creating her residency (WIPs to come!), we thought we’d share another recent work she created for her solo show in September 2022 in LA at @vellum_la.

‘Every day, 4 am, awake. Did Sisyphus ever push the boulder over the hill? she wondered. Hers grew inside her.’

Hungry Ghost is part of Slipstream: Table of Contents - a series of ten immersive, abstract videos, exploring digitally-mediated storytelling, authorship, and more via ten self-contained chapters presented as a “book.” Slipstream artworks begin as graphite drawings on paper, launching a long odyssey of production and mutation. The drawings are torn into pieces and then reconfigured in bespoke sculptures. Documented as 3D objects through photogrammetry, they are then altered, lit, and animated using CG software. Additive and subtractive in their construction, the drawings’ transmutations embody a shifting logic as they traverse the softwares that shape them. Some videos include brief textual collaborations with the language model GPT-3, to further blur and layer the artist’s creative intentions. There are also written “excerpts” from each chapter in lieu of traditional wall descriptions. These excerpts invite conversation about storytelling, blending text and image as an animated graphic novel. As stories they reckon with the core question of the Ship of Theseus; what, after version upon version, remains of the original?

To contextualize Baker Cahill’s ongoing creative entanglement with literature and her digital practice, which is the focus of the new work she is currently creating her residency (WIPs to come!), we thought we’d share another recent work she created for her solo show in September 2022 in LA at @vellum_la.

‘Every day, 4 am, awake. Did Sisyphus ever push the boulder over the hill? she wondered. Hers grew inside her.’

Hungry Ghost is part of Slipstream: Table of Contents - a series of ten immersive, abstract videos, exploring digitally-mediated storytelling, authorship, and more via ten self-contained chapters presented as a “book.” Slipstream artworks begin as graphite drawings on paper, launching a long odyssey of production and mutation. The drawings are torn into pieces and then reconfigured in bespoke sculptures. Documented as 3D objects through photogrammetry, they are then altered, lit, and animated using CG software. Additive and subtractive in their construction, the drawings’ transmutations embody a shifting logic as they traverse the softwares that shape them. Some videos include brief textual collaborations with the language model GPT-3, to further blur and layer the artist’s creative intentions. There are also written “excerpts” from each chapter in lieu of traditional wall descriptions. These excerpts invite conversation about storytelling, blending text and image as an animated graphic novel. As stories they reckon with the core question of the Ship of Theseus; what, after version upon version, remains of the original?