R. Scott Peterson

In the artist's words

Every life is shaped by what it learns to ignore. Mine has been shaped by what it couldn’t.

Some observations disappear almost immediately, while others remain. I've learned to take that more seriously.

For many years I believed attention simply revealed more of the world. I still believe that; however, I just no longer believe that's all it does.

Given enough time, certain observations begin to change the observer. They quietly reshape what continues to matter, what refuses to leave, and eventually, how one moves through the world.

Most of the observations that have stayed with me never arrived as revelations. They accumulated gradually, often beneath ordinary moments, until they became impossible to dismiss. Rather than rushing toward an explanation, I found it more valuable to remain with them and see what they continued to reveal.

Some observations become too important to simply move past. The works that follow are a record of those that changed me.