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Alice Baber’s fascination with light finds expression in luminous ovoid shapes—bubbles or droplets—that seem to dance across a radiant white field. Her use of pale tonalities allows these forms to nearly dissolve into the canvas’s pale ground. Yet, through her signature stain-and-lift technique, Baber introduces delicate gradations of color that give rise to a serene surface in soft movement–where milky, opaque forms drift through an infinite, ethereal space. Baber imagines the world within mountains as one of stillness and peace. Warm orange hues bracket the composition, while soft brown forms gather at its center, providing a sense of grounding. Consistent with her exploration of the circle as a vessel of infinite potential for light and color, Baber employs forms reminiscent of pebbles, petals, amoebas, and ellipses to experiment with chroma and shine. These shifting shapes subtly modulate in hue, creating a sense of soft movement, as if suspended in recollected light.