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The art

Portraits of women who spent years being told nothing was wrong. Most of it comes out of the endometriosis work at home, and most of it is trying to say one thing: I hear you, and you deserve better.

The tools are new. The voice is still mine.

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Not Your Hero by Mike Baker
Not Your Hero

The show

No Permission Needed

This series isn’t mine to own. The power in these portraits belongs to the women who live it. My job was to witness it, and to make sure what they carry can’t be ignored.

I’m a man. That matters here. I haven’t lived what women live. But I’ve seen it — in my wife and my daughter, who both live with endometriosis, and in the stories women have trusted me with through the advocacy work.

The show ran at The Art Spirit Gallery in February 2026.

The short answer

Where the work comes from

A portrait of me, made with the same tools as the rest of this work.

Most of this starts at my kitchen table, not in a studio.

My wife and my daughter both live with endometriosis. I watched them fight for care that should have been simple, and face a system that treats their pain like a debate. That is the argument underneath almost everything here.

Through the advocacy work as EndoDad, women started trusting me with their own stories — being dismissed in care, chronic pain, the quiet exhaustion of being strong for too long. I’ve tried to answer those in songs, in books, and now in pictures. They’re all the same attempt.

These sit alongside Believe Her the First Time and the rest of the advocacy. Same subject, different instrument.

Where it’s been

The work has traveled further than this site has said

Norway, back in 2024. A show in New York. The Art Spirit Gallery here in Coeur d’Alene. A few others besides. Most of it went out alongside the endometriosis work rather than through galleries, which is probably why I never got around to writing it down.

Selected works

Fifteen to start with

A spread across the series rather than a deep cut from one. Click any of them to read what it is about and see it properly.

Not Your Hero by Mike Baker View work

Not Your Hero

No Permission Needed
This Body Is Not Policy by Mike Baker View work

This Body Is Not Policy

The Body Remembers
Tree of Life No. 26 by Mike Baker View work

Tree of Life No. 26

Mythic Origins
Heroes Among Us No. 1 by Mike Baker View work

Heroes Among Us No. 1

Human Presence
She Who Burns No. 14 by Mike Baker View work

She Who Burns No. 14

She Who Burns
The Matriarch by Mike Baker View work

The Matriarch

No Permission Needed
She Didn’t Ask First by Mike Baker View work

She Didn’t Ask First

The Body Remembers
The Fire Within by Mike Baker View work

The Fire Within

Infinite Canvas AI
The Rising Fist by Mike Baker View work

The Rising Fist

No Permission Needed
Tree of Life No. 13 by Mike Baker View work

Tree of Life No. 13

Mythic Origins
She Doesn’t Wait for the Signal by Mike Baker View work

She Doesn’t Wait for the Signal

The Body Remembers
The Weight No One Sees by Mike Baker View work

The Weight No One Sees

No Permission Needed
Wide Open by Mike Baker View work

Wide Open

No Permission Needed
She Who Burns No. 15 by Mike Baker View work

She Who Burns No. 15

She Who Burns
Unapologetic by Mike Baker View work

Unapologetic

No Permission Needed

Bodies of work

The series

The Stand by Mike Baker

No Permission Needed

40 works

Forty portraits about women not needing anyone's approval to exist, lead, or be heard. Every one has my own writing behind it.

She Didn’t Ask First by Mike Baker

The Body Remembers

40 works

The wider thread that runs through the endometriosis work — the same argument as Believe Her the First Time, in pictures.

She Who Burns No. 381 by Mike Baker

She Who Burns

21 works

A series I kept coming back to. Same figure, same fire, worked over and over until it said what I meant.

Tree of Life No. 26 by Mike Baker

Mythic Origins

98 works

Angels and one tree. Angel of the Valley, Angel of Resilience, Angel of Solitude — and the same tree painted again and again. I kept coming back to both because they kept not being finished.

Heroes Among Us No. 26 by Mike Baker

Human Presence

22 works

Women drawn in the visual language of comic books — capes, stances, insignia. The posture usually reserved for people who rescue everyone else.

A figure on a rocky shore at sunrise, seen from behind

Commissions

4 works

Pieces made for one person. These were gifts, so they aren't for sale — they're here to show what a custom project actually looks like.

Prints

If you want one on a wall

Prints are fulfilled through Pictorem. I don’t hold stock and I don’t run a checkout here — the buy button takes you to the size and material options for that specific piece.

  • Available Sizes and materials are live on Pictorem.
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  • Not currently available Some pieces aren’t for sale. Those say so plainly instead of pretending.
Not Your Hero shown framed on a wall

Framed, roughly to scale

Commissions and process

Custom work

Something made for you

I take a small number of custom pieces. Read what the process actually involves before you ask — it saves us both time.

Start a custom piece

A series

She Left

Three watercolors about leaving: the moment she goes, the work of continuing, and the point where the past stops steering.

See the series

Words and art together

The Women Who Carry the World

A poem and ten pictures, made at the same time. It ends where No Permission Needed starts.

Read it

How it’s made

The AI part, in plain language

I use AI tools to make this work and I’ve never hidden it. I’ve written down where I stand rather than making you guess.

Read the manifesto

I’ll send you the next one

My letter is called Just an Ordinary Tuesday. Essays mostly, and now and then a song, an episode, some artwork, or something from the advocacy work.

Joining is free, and it opens the Resource Library — twelve tools I built because we needed them.

You’re in. Check your inbox to confirm, and the next ordinary Tuesday will find you.

I aim for Tuesdays, twice a month or so, and I don’t always make it. Your address stays private, and leaving is always easy.