{"id":2074,"date":"2012-10-25T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:31:27","slug":"debra-baxter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/debra-baxter\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Debra Baxter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Debra Baxter<\/a> creates the most awe-inspiring, surrealist sculptures; transforming alabaster into soft cloth-like forms and then bonding them to rigid pyrite or porous concrete. Playing with different materials and textures Debra creates objects almost alien as if unearthed from some foreign landscape.<\/p>\n

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Debra Baxter creates the most awe-inspiring, surrealist sculptures; transforming alabaster into soft cloth-like forms and then bonding them to rigid pyrite or porous concrete. Playing with different materials and textures Debra creates objects almost alien as if unearthed from some foreign landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,281,102],"tags":[364,37,125,362,361,363,1870],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-mixed-media","category-sculpture","tag-alabaster","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-concrete","tag-debra-baxter","tag-pyrite","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-xs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2711,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/sarah-blood\/","url_meta":{"origin":2074,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Sarah Blood","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"November 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Employing the technology of luminous gas and glass, Sarah Blood creates minimalistic sculpture work with neon lamps and concrete. 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