THE TERMINAL CENTURY
Materials information:
Terminal Century #8 Slipcase Front (Jack and Jackie)
2006
Color laser prints on book board
16 7/8 x 11 1/2”
Terminal Century #8 Slipcase Back (Our Friend the Atom)
2006
Color laser prints on book board
16 7/8 x 11 1/2”
The Terminal Century #8, Front cover
2006
Spray paint on Plexiglass
16 1/2 x 11 3/8”
Terminal Century #8 Epigraph Page
2001-06
Acrylic paint and dry black pigment on construction paper
16 3/8 x 11”
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The Terminal Century (opening spread)
1998
Acrylic, gouache, ink and pencil on color laser copy
10 3/8 x 16 1/2”
Pocket MonstersTM strobe
2000
Gouache on color laser copy and collage
16 3/4 x 10 7/8”
from the Times Square JumboTron,
2000
Color laser copy
16 1/2 x 10 7/8”
pixels flaring remorseless as napalm,
1998
Acrylic and gouache on color laser copy
16 x 10 1/2”
revelers bleed out onto the avenues --
2000
Acrylic and gouache on color laser copy and Polaroid
16 3/8 x 10 5/8”
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.
1999
Acrylic and gouache on color laser copy and collage
16 1/4 x 10 3/4”
Noise enervates mindless transmissions
1998
Acrylic and gouache on color laser copy and collage
16 x 10 3/4”
spewed at light speed far, very far beyond
1999
Gouache on color laser copy and collage
16 1/2 x 10 3/4”
backyard dishes, melding with the snap crackle and
2000
Color laser copy
16 3/8 x 10 7/8”
pop of immemorial radiation;
2000
Gouache and pencil on color laser copy and collage
17 x 11 1/8”
tapes unspool, hissing back and back and back
1999
Acrylic, gouache and ink on color laser copy and collage
16 1/2 x 10 7/8”
and blitz kids hurl chairs
2000
Gouache, oil and pencil on Polaroid, photograph, color laser copy and collage
16 5/8 x 10 1/2”
into an unstaged conflagration --
2000
Color laser copy
15 5/8 x 10 1/2”
even The Killer must abandon his ivories:
1999
Acrylic and gouache on color laser copy
16 1/4 x 10 1/2”
“Follow that, nigger” don’t close this show,
2000
Color laser copy
16 1/2 x 10 3/4”
immortalized, scratched and grainy and gray
2000
Gouache on color laser copy, barrier tape and collage
17 x 11”
on a Berlin stage the master of piano wire
2000
Color laser copy
16 1/2 x 10 7/8”
spits and slashes and rattles the lectern,
2000
Gouache and pencil on color laser copy, acetate and collage
16 5/8 x 10 5/8”
levitated by feral howls and choreographed fires,
1999
Color laser copy
16 1/2 x 10 5/8”
gorged on blood and bread and soil and crocuses
1999
Acrylic, gouache and pencil on color laser copy
16 1/2 x 10 5/8”
flyblown lovers creak and sway,
1994 - ‘99
Color laser copy/web press reject
16 3/8 x 10 3/4”
briefly sating the inverted multitudes --
2000
Acrylic, gouache and pencil on color laser copy
16 x 10 3/4”
was Ike perhaps punning:
1998
Acrylic, gouache and dry ink on acetate and color laser copy
15 1/2 x 10 5/8”
“God, what an ignoble end,” or
2000
Gouache and pencil on color laser copy and barrier tape
16 3/8 x 10 3/4”
was the germ of MAD already festering around him
2000
Gouache, pencil, white charcoal and oil on color laser copy and collage
16 1/2 x 10 3/4”
as a black hole shuddered open
1998
Gouache and pencil on color laser copy and collage
15 7/8 x 10 1/2”
over that untouched city,
2000
Gouache, acrylic and dry ink on acetate and color laser copy and collage
16 3/4 x 10 3/4”
where they looked up to an August sun
1999
Acrylic and gouache on color laser copy
16 1/2 x 11”
for the time it took to fall --
1998
Gouache and ink on color laser copy
16 1/2 x 10 3/4”
43 seconds
1997 - ‘99
Gesso, acrylic, gouache and ink on collage
17 x 10 3/4”
ticking over as inexorably as radium to lead,
1998
Color laser copy
16 x 10 3/4”
silently and infinitely halving the distance
1998
Acrylic, gouache and ink on color laser copy
16 x 9 1/2”
to a coiled point beyond nature --
1999
Gesso and gouache on color laser copy
16 x 10 3/4”
carbon shades now, heralds of a scorched and
1999
Color laser copy
16 1/4 x 10 7/8”
mendacious peace, never knowing the rest of us
2000
Color laser copy
16 x 10 7/8”
had entered an age too cheap to meter?
1998
Acrylic, gouache, dry ink, oil and pencil on color laser copy and collage
16 3/4 x 10 3/4”
So come, comrades, fast forward to the crossroads
1999
Gouache, pencil, charcoal and oil on color laser copy and collage
16 1/2 x 10 3/4”
of Nike ® and Disney ® 2000
Gouache and pencil on color laser copy
16 1/2 x 11”
where the whimpering viruses have supplanted
1998
Acrylic, gouache, white charcoal and dry ink on acetate and color laser copy
15 7/8 x 10 5/8”
fat men and little boys,
1999
Acrylic, gouache and oil on color laser copy and collage
16 1/4 x 10 3/4”
and where a flabby devil
2000
Gouache, oil and pencil on color laser copy and collage
16 3/8 x 10 1/4”
will teach us all how to play the blues.
1999
Gouache, pencil, oil and circuit sticker on color laser copy and collage
17 x 11”
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The Terminal Century #7, inside back cover, back cover
2006
Spray paint on Plexiglass
16 1/2 x 11 3/8”
The Terminal Century #8, inside back cover, back cover
2006
Spray paint on Plexiglass
16 1/2 x 11 3/8”
THE TERMINAL CENTURY [printed 1997-2001, painted covers and epigraph pages ongoing]:
Each copy of the limited edition book includes slipcase, unique front and back painted Plexiglass
covers, and epigraph page; 100 pages total
The Terminal Century was designed and typeset on a Macintosh PowerBook G3
using Multi-Ad Creator2 1.6.1 and Adobe Photoshop 5.5.
Printed on a Canon 700S Laser Copier, Xerox Splash, and an HP 4MV Laser Printer.
Typography:
Text: Matrix Extra Bold; cover and opening spread: Terminal Century One-shot;
heads: Dead History Bold; spine: DIN Black / ITC Kabel Bold.
Edition of 42 plus VIII artist’s proofs.
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R.C. Baker artist and writer