Peter Matthews

A Beautiful Encounter

2020. Shells and organic matter in found cardboard box. Variable dimensions.

In the depths of our global pandemic, while walking in the rain alone at twilight along Swansea Bay, I saw a small cardboard box moving along the road in a light wind. I was drawn to this mundane cardboard box which was all alone in the world, vulnerable and fragile. Walking with the empty box in the rain, a mystical and beautiful encounter developed into a profound relationship. A Beautiful Encounter reveals a mystical truth about life and the cosmos, our fleeting passage through time and how we exist on a shifting and beautiful shore of both the known and the unknown.