Peter Frantz
 Artist
 
I experience life first and always as a conversation, a discourse with forces we neither see nor fully understand. Like stones hidden in a river, they alter the currents of our lives. I believe Art can inaugurate just such a conversation, a dialogue between individuals who may or may not be aware of each other’s existence. The search to substantiate these tenuous aspects of kinship drives me. My work strives for a reconciliation of solid materials against this fleeting, ephemeral world of human connection, a translation without words. This, to me, represents the beauty of work intended to create these unseen, or perhaps unconstrained, lands. The ideal and essence that lives along the byways and paths of the space we cannot see, but we know exists. I strive to see those pathways, or more precisely, the trails left of those thoughts and ideas, definitions and songs, that sail along and touch us when we least expect it. We strive to summon it. I suspect that is a conceit. We are touched and that is the staggeringly complex and ultimately simple unfolding of the human condition; life on the mobius strip. I believe completely this touch of the mystic is the basis for artistic creation.