arteles_catalogue_2014

IN THE RESIDENCY
April 2014
“The eye searches for what
the heart already knows”
CARISSA BAKTAY
Canada
cmebaktay@gmail.com // www.carissabaktay.com
I am an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Calgary,
Alberta with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Glass from the
Alberta College of Art + Design. I have studied at the Rhode Island
School of Design, Red Deer College, participated in an annual
Snow and Ice sculpting residency in Norway and was accepted to
the 2011/2012 Living Arts Center Fellowship in Glass.
Whether through hand made glass or installation and performance,
my current practice aims to transfer my own emotive knowledge
and experiences to the viewer. My inter-disciplinary work employs
different materials and methodologies for their specific values to
create installations and objects that cater to the haptic experience
of the spectator, where seeing is wholly intertwined with feeling.
The feeling of discomfort when first introduced to strange or
different surroundings, the desire and longing between people
and places and the way seasons evoke distinct memories inspires
my work aesthetically, conceptually and technically. My work has
an inherent stillness, taking artistic cues from the landscape and
dream like environments. Portraying this simplicity has remained
a constant aim within my work through a wide range of methods,
techniques and projects.