Scott Peterman: Shack
Thursday, May 31, 2007In the recent discussion of ‘Different vs. The Same’ or what may more accurately be called ‘Series vs. Sequence’ (sparked by Albrecht Tübke’s Heads), Carey left a comment proposing that “repetitious projects are,” very simply, “about making visual comparisons.”
(from “Shack”)
© Scott Peterman
(from “Shack”)
© Scott Peterman
(from “Shack”)
© Scott Peterman
What better illustrates this idea than the work of Scott Peterman. With his series Shack, Peterman has isolated each ice fishing shack in the white of winter with a precise formal (and minimalist) approach from image to image, asking us to consider the color, architecture and, ultimately, the meaning of these constructions. Peterman deploys a similar approach with City and Land, but the effect of his examination of the shacks really made me reconsider sameness — and, interestingly, the importance of looking at difference within a set of similar images.
