Tomak Baksik As a third year art/physics major, Tomak left the University of Michigan to be a full time starving artist. Here began a 15 year exploration of the works of many teachers and muses, including Bernini, the PreRaphaelites, Mucha, Tiffany, William and Katharine Blake, Nietszche, Xena and Patanjali. The journey for Tomak has included work in many media: pewter spincasting, copper jewelry, etching, electroplating, drawing, Celtic knotwork, maze and tattoo design, blacksmithing, bronze, pottery, woodworking, silkscreening, landscape painting, abstract 2-D, fantasy illustration, and sculpture in chocolate, wire, wood, foam, clays, many resins, even one in thermite. The most notable is a gothic cathedral featuring two rose windows, four flying buttresses, and a vaulted ceiling, all in vacuum-formed plastic. This architectural installation was made to deepen the medieval experience of all who came to Pennsic, a national gathering of historical anachronists. His current project is an over-life-size Baroque Roman fountain, featuring Minerva, Neptune and Cymodoce.

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