Peter Matthews

Lone Fire Spirit Over the Atlantic Ocean

2013. Digital print. Variable dimensions.

The collection of driftwood, from days spent exploring and discovering intertidal zones along the Atlantic Ocean, transforms into a blazing fire and then, with time, transports me into a mysterious world of darkness beside the ocean.  Exploring the notions and actions of shamanism, the sublime, ex-stasis, transformation, intimacy and distance and projecting one’s spirit upon the fire spirits in which the ocean has brought to earth from out-there.