Nadia Baker

I am a biologist by day and artist by night based in Vancouver, British Columbia. I look to the everyday elements of our urban environment for inspiration. I enjoy the challenge of observation and the process of documentation and transformation into a new creation. Because reality is so varied and surprising, there is lots of room for imaginative interpretation.

I make a point of noticing the unseen machines that dot our everyday landscape and like to pretend they are alive. For example, when I am walking through Chinatown and Downtown Vancouver, electrical transformers which sit quietly perched on power poles, often unnoticed, call to me. Though they perform the same function, each has a different design and personality. They come to life in my imagination.