Steve Peters is an environmental artist that uses sound installations and site specific artwork to encourage viewers to appreciate the world around them, and all the details we overlook daily.
A piece I was particularly interested in was Delicate Arasions, a 12-channel sound installation made from sounds the artist collected in an abandoned shack. The sounds are from a place most people would avoid, multiplying the viewers distance from the sounds. In his artist's statement, Peters discusses how we train ourselves to filter out sounds, and his work is about learning to hear them again. We are an increasingly visual culture, and tend to neglect our hearing.
His work reminds me that a side effect of being efficient and focused is often an inability to consider alternate options. You have to be open to experiences, and paying attention to the sounds around you is just one example of learning to be more open.
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