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The Corn Moon
Tomorrow night- the moon is full. It is called the corn moon. Our corn however, is long since harvested (I think). It could possible...
Sam Baker
Sep 1, 20201 min read
Day 165 isolation
Acrylic on Canvas from the Waiting Series
Sam Baker
Sep 1, 20201 min read
Dark Horse
Dark Horse From the Waiting Series acrylic on canvas
Sam Baker
Aug 31, 20201 min read
September Newsletter
Newsletter
Sam Baker
Aug 31, 20201 min read
Day 164 isolation
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -Eleanor Roosevelt Redline Summer 2020
Sam Baker
Aug 31, 20201 min read
Day 163 isolation
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. -Eleanor Roosevelt Oil on board
Sam Baker
Aug 30, 20201 min read
Day 162 isolation
History says / Don’t hope on this side of the grave / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up /...
Sam Baker
Aug 29, 20201 min read
Day 161 isolation
The Moon was but a Chin of Gold A Night or two ago – And now she turns Her perfect Face Upon the World below – Her Forehead is of Amplest...
Sam Baker
Aug 28, 20201 min read
Day 160 isolation
Choose Something Like a Star -Robert Frost O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of...
Sam Baker
Aug 27, 20201 min read
Day 159 isolation
Get up! Let's fill the night with moonlight. Wake the flowers! Make them burn the midnight oil. -Rumi Translation by Zara Houshmand Brad...
Sam Baker
Aug 26, 20201 min read
Sam Baker
Aug 25, 20200 min read
Day 157 isolation
A large complex bug that looks like a outer space jet fighter that was on my screen door. It stayed for a while. Then it flew west. ...
Sam Baker
Aug 24, 20201 min read
Day 156 isolation
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance. -James Baldwin painted circuit board. acrylic...
Sam Baker
Aug 23, 20201 min read
Sam Baker
Aug 22, 20200 min read
masked
the first shipment of masks arrived and have been sent by my beautiful USPS to you who ordered in the first round. And thank you...
Sam Baker
Aug 22, 20201 min read
Day 155 isolation
Fallen petals of red plum—. they seem to be burning. on clods of horse shit. -Yosa Buson
Sam Baker
Aug 22, 20201 min read
Day 154 isolation
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an...
Sam Baker
Aug 21, 20201 min read
Day 153 isolation
Without music life would be a mistake.” -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche encaustic wolf on plywood
Sam Baker
Aug 20, 20201 min read
Day 152 isolation
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and...
Sam Baker
Aug 19, 20201 min read
Mid August Newsletter
Hey my friends. We shipped our first batch of masks. The second batch comes in early September and those are sold out. We are ordering...
Sam Baker
Aug 18, 20201 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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