The works aren\u2019t worlds away from teletext, those famously primitive designs on old TVs made up of pixels that blur and bleed between cathode ray tubes. In order to give life to his works, Peter dismantles them \u2013 they fall apart, like a child knocking over a tower of blocks, revealing the fundamental motifs inside patterns, stripes, checkers, symmetry and repetition. \u201cYou see the pieces not as a fixed composition but as raw elements searching for harmony. Deconstructing and reassembling them allows for catharsis: the artwork is both undone and remade, and your perception shifts with it,\u201d shares Peter.<\/p>\n
The sound design came later in the artistic process, as a way of further emphasising this deconstruction. Endearing, MIDI sounds of digital horns, chimes and synths accompany the dancing blocks. Clicking two art works together creates an unexpected collaborative element, as if the jiggling monoliths are talking to each other \u2013 musical harmony is achieved alongside visual disharmony. \u201cI\u2019d deliberately undermine the visual by pairing it with something jarring, like heavy horns and bass over a delicate palette,\u201d says Peter. \u201cWith 100 works, I had room to test how sound could reinforce or confound how you experience the Image.\u201d This fascinating set of works begins as a test on how we understand visual languages but quickly wins you over, inviting you into its charming, contained chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The works aren\u2019t worlds away from teletext, those famously primitive designs on old TVs made up of pixels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}