Mending consists of two series’ of  paintings, in which domestic spaces and “landscapes” are painted in vibrant colors and naive rendering. Throughout the work color is a driving force that claims its own confidence, allowing the otherwise hidden mundanity to perform. The interior spaces are of rooms of homes the artist has lived in since 2020. Perspective and scale are often pushed and pulled, distorting rooms creating a slight instability in the domestic space. A figure reappears in the rooms, contorted, and often precariously existing within the bodily spaces of ledges, floors, corners, and furniture. The interiors are cluttered with tchotchkes but also Plants, smoke, a broom- everyday objects become enshrined in the home that has been baptized sacred through quarantine. Necklaces, a phone and a cat are often around or in the piles and messes that portrait an inner life's outer expression. Some reappearing objects of daily life are indicators for a space situated in a recent time, and grounding the viewer into the mundanity of daily domestic life currently or recently. By allowing color to lead the work, banalities are visually elevated. The simple beauty of our lives we otherwise rush through, is able to take our attention. The phones, Electric plugs and cords become connectors to the otherside of the wall, and therefore the rest of the world, buzzing with energy and information. The landscapes often are river banks and road shrubbery oozing through fences saturated in colors. Screens, lamps and cords on chairs, tables, trees and in rivers, place the memories in rooms being projected into a moment of presence in the forest. The tension in the color palette and specific objects in close proximity don’t allow the landscape to function as  a decorative commodity, the pristine forest is interrupted by our attention towards screens and the need for an electric plug. In Mending Peters installs paintings amongst everyday objects allowing the space to have a resemblance of a living space. The viewer is invited into an interior that connects personally and collectively with themes of home, rest, isolation, wonder, healing, pain and despair. The paintings are placed thoughtfully to indulge the viewer in a narrative of self and is saturated in a desperate grappling with finding vibrancy and joy.

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