When is the Past always present? Bak employs the cubist destruction of an image that has become a very forceful presence in the "Figuring Out" collection.
The man wearing a hat is portrayed in fragments and various plains. He emerges from these pieces of material e.g. paper, flesh, metal and wood all are composed as if it is a portrait of the man wearing his hat.
This figure is trapped in the cage of the bare branches and trees. All out of a real context and yet a reality of the war in disarray.
How does one survive the destruction of the power grid in the Ukraine? The persecution in Somalia? The near apartheid in Israel. The discrimination and oppression in the South of the United States. All atrocities perpetrated by people on the other.
Feeling threatened has continued to cause the ongoing killing of the other.
Bak’s work alerts us to these evil deeds and calls out for us to stand and prevent them. Hence the title is deceptive.
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