Interior Light #5 (Primary Title)
Brian H. Peterson, American, born 1953 (Artist)
"Sometimes the light would fall on a chair or a windowpane and I would stop in midstride and stare." —Brian H. Peterson
Since 1969 Peterson has used the camera to record elements of the natural world—trees, water, rocks—as well as people closeto him. After years of taking photographs outside, often in distant locations, Peterson became fascinated by the play of light and shadow in his own home. Using a point-and-shoot camera, he began Interior Light, a series of tightly focused images that transform ordinary and familiar places into something mysterious and lyrical. Interior Light #5 shows a thin curtain rippling in the breeze. Light coming through venetian blinds projects a striated pattern, bent into a beautifully distorted flaglike geometry across the curtain’s folds.
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