Mia Baker is an artist who creates large oil paintings that examine how humans negatively disrupt the environment. Growing up in Hawaii, Baker learned how indigenous and sustainable farming practices worked in harmony with nature, prioritizing soil health and diversity within ecosystems. After moving to Oklahoma, she has noticed how our systems seem to contradict those of nature, creating an imbalance that causes issues such as global warming, soil erosion, pollution, and mass extinction. Western Eurocentric cultures tend to treat the environment as a material to be used and controlled rather than a place we inhabit and coexist. Humans tend to use systems that are linear and controlled, while nature is the very opposite. Baker creates this tension within her work, showing how the gridded systems disrupt the organic, natural world.