Stitch Baird has been drawing for most of his life, finding ways to channel his art into a representation of himself.
“I feel like it’s a way for me to communicate what I experience without having to spill my life story to strangers. And when people see my art, and when they say they like my art, it makes me feel like I’m not alone in what I experience. Because even if someone else doesn’t experience the same thing, they can see how I experience it,” Baird said.
“I think I’m more of a conduit than a creator,” said Baird. “I channel my feelings into a visual medium, or visual representation.”
“I found it to be really therapeutic,” Baird said. “If I’ve done the outline for something and I just have to go over it, I can like dissociate into it. And then I can sort out my feelings about what I’m trying and about what that represents while I’m going over it.”
“It’s sort of like taking your demons and putting them on paper, and telling them that they don’t control your future.” –Baird
One of the bigger projects Baird has been working on is a Tarot card deck. The deck is called Midnight Oddities and, according to Baird, it represents “the things that go bump in the night, the monsters under the bed.”
Each card in the deck has an individual meaning. One of the cards Baird is most deeply connected to is ‘The Magician.’
“It’s about your capabilities and the resources at your disposal. And it means you need to tap into your whole full potential and not hold back. And that’s been very important to me. Because in high school I I took on a lot of projects, but I never really I took them on because I felt like I had an obligation” said Baird.
“Because everyone [said to me] like, ‘Oh, you have so much potential.’ And I felt like ‘I have to do something with that.’ But I was never really doing things that I enjoyed or that I thought I was good at. And now I’m focusing on fewer things, but things that I actually think I have potential to be good at,” said Baird. “For me [the card is] about transformation into more of who you are meant to be.”
The deck as a whole has also has an important purpose, created by Baird to be a message for those in search of healing.
“Different decks are designed to have different energies and stuff. And this is meant to be a deck for survivors,” Baird said. “ This is meant to be like a recognition of what we’ve all been through and a route to get past that, and heal from that.”
To see more of Stitch Baird’s art follow his IG: @bad.wolf.artisto or his Tumblr: @badwolfartisto. To commission Baird work email him at bad.wolf.artisto@gmail.com
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