Exhibition Past

Any soul born from childhood will connect with the universal experience of growing up, a sensation that Laura Peturson implores with apparent effortlessness - and capitalizes on as a space to draw attention to the world that today’s children are destined to inherit. Within large scale murals, Peterson immerses her audience in a fantasy land that at first glance seems separate from the adult world. And yet, there is something looming in the margins...

All stimuli calculate action and reaction, compelling us to take stock of the hour upon hour tide of such cause and effect; lived action leaving indelible traces of multiple encounters, abundant fleeting moments, so many remembered expressions. We are a privileged species and for better or for worse, we are a tectonic mass. Evidently, her reflections describe some of the shifting sympathies of social tectonics, a fundamental gesture from Jolowicz, where she tells us how to dance with the material world...