Charming Baker — Nine works: i) All I Want Can Only Be Accomplished By Ignoring What You Need (black); ii) All I Want Is For Times To Change Until I Hit Some Good Ones (black); iii) All I Want Is For You Not To Speak Unless You Can Improve On The Silence (black); iv) All I Want Is Love, Attention and Permission To Fail (black); v) All I Want Is My Caravan Parked in Eden (black); vi) All I Want Is The Courage To Hide Behind My Own Sense of Self Belief (black); vii) All I Want Is To Avoid That Bridge Between Uncertainty And Outright Disappointment (black); viii) All I Want Is To Not Know Now What I Didn't Know Then (black); ix) All I Want Is To Remain Ignorant Of All The Good I'll Never Do (black)

Nine works: i) All I Want Can Only Be Accomplished By Ignoring What You Need (black); ii) All I Want Is For Times To Change Until I Hit Some Good Ones (black); iii) All I Want Is For You Not To Speak Unless You Can Improve On The Silence (black); iv) All I Want Is Love, Attention and Permission To Fail (black); v) All I Want Is My Caravan Parked in Eden (black); vi) All I Want Is The Courage To Hide Behind My Own Sense of Self Belief (black); vii) All I Want Is To Avoid That Bridge Between Uncertainty And Outright Disappointment (black); viii) All I Want Is To Not Know Now What I Didn't Know Then (black); ix) All I Want Is To Remain Ignorant Of All The Good I'll Never Do (black)

2011

This suite of nine bronze sculptures by Charming Baker presents a series of candid, confessional statements cast in patina and polished bronze, each beginning with the phrase "All I Want," transforming deeply personal anxieties and desires into permanent, weighty form. The contrast between the raw vulnerability of the text and the enduring, lustrous quality of the bronze medium creates a compelling tension, elevating fleeting human doubt and longing into something monumental. Together, the works form a collective meditation on self-awareness, fear, and the quiet contradictions that define the human condition.