Peter Happel Christian

Once Around

2014, 365 sheets of 8.5" x 11" fiber-based gelatin silver paper, rope, the weather of one calendar year (January 1 - December 31, 2013)

Sun/Shade I

2013, archival pigment print, 14" x 11"

Pallet

2014, custom cedar pallet, the weather of one calendar (January 1 - December 31, 2013)

Once Around Again

2014, 365 sheets of 4" x 6" resin-coated gelatin silver paper, twine, the weather of one calendar year (January 1 - December 31, 2013)

Blood of Kings

2013, etched and inked copper plate, 10" x 10.125," custom wood shelf

Drag and Drip I

2013, unique gelatin silver print, 14" x 11"

Eclipse

2013-14, custom black mirror, 16" diameter, custom wooden stand

Capture What We Made

2013, screened compost, hand squeezes, cardboard shipping boxes

Broken Sun

2014, hand tinted glass and mirrors, custom shelving, approximately 72" x 48" x 8"

Finding the Time

2013, unique gelatin silver print, 10" x 8"

Sun/Shade III

2013, archival pigment print, 14" x 11"

Infinite Field II

2014, mixed media

Sun/Shade II

2013, archival pigment print, 14" x 11"

One Afternoon (2003)

2014, gelatin silver print from 2003, approximately 10" x 8"

Infinite Field III

2014, mixed media

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2013 - 2014

The exhibition, Sword of the Sun, very loosely intimates the contents of a story of nearly the same title in the book, Mr. Palomar, by Italo Calvino. In the story, the reader hears the internal monologue of an elderly man, Mr. Palomar, while he is swimming in a nameless sea at sunset. Altogether, the work in the exhibition is a drift through the wilderness of my home and yard, a skid through the nature of time and an examination of how we fragment and compartmentalize the world for the purposes of contemplation and understanding.

Sword of the Sun, February 7-March 14, 2014, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota.

Read a review of the exhibition by Lex Thompson.

Sword of the Sun (St. Paul)

2013 - 2014

2013 - 2014