Peter Christian Johnson

Hypostasis series

My work attempts to reference the connection between the human body and the physical world, the internal and the external. I see the body itself as a vessel, a vessel that contains our understanding of Self. I am interested in the interaction between the internal and the external. My pieces are, in a sense, systems that express this convergence between our interior and exterior selves. The work alludes to an internal function or action, the act of emptying and retaining. I am interested in this point of convergence where two seemingly opposed actions can coexist.