I’ll be trying to show my Limited Edition work in various places for a while. My step-mom found this one, as she’s an active member of the book arts community. They aren’t much for verbosity — the application requires a 300-character (approx. 50 word) general artist statement (written in the third person) and a 150-word description of the work. That is not easy:

On one hand, Eric Baskauskas is interested in the loftiest of thoughts (oh, the enormity of eternity!). On the other, he grounds himself in details most minute and mundane (the dust on his garage floor). He suggests that these two realms aren’t so different. His hybrid content manifests itself in a hybrid practice: a mix of conceptual art and graphic design.

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Using print/books allows for a deliberate use of time — pacing and rhythm are essential. Thematically, my work deals with such things as youth’s disappearance, the apocalypse, and meals: beginnings, ends, cycles. Light and color are focal — not only does our relationship with the sun dictate the daily passage of time but also, simply, what we can and cannot see.

Time’s influence is evident in the process and materiality of my most recent work. I sandpapered all of the paint from the exterior of my Nissan Sentra “Limited Edition” and then painted it with gray primer. I saved all of the dust that came off the car during sanding, then mixed the dust with oil to make ink. I letterpress printed with that ink to produce an edition of prints. In the car and the prints, the end products are destined to live on, change, and eventually expire.

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We’re out of food again.