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Rock Balancing Photography Balance is a hidden quality, both in nature and in life, a quality we often find only through reflection and exploration. Peter Riedel sees rock balancing as not defying, but rather finding that center of gravity.
Because of the transient nature of the pieces, he uses photography to capture the essence of his work. The photographs are not the purpose, but rather the end result in the creative process.
Peters’ work is at once impermanent and permanent, in that it alters the organization of the natural landscape. His transient sculptures contradict the permanence of traditional art; yet his photographs strive to record what shall eventually vanish. His work reminds us that as human beings, we have some ability to control nature, but eventually, in the end, nature controls us.
The rock structures eventually collapse back into the water or onto the shoreline.
Peter Riedel's rock balancing work has been featured by a number of newspapers including The National Post, The Globe and Mail and 24 Hours as well as Breakfast TV. The summer of '06 Peter exhibited his photography in Toronto at the Praxis and Axis Galleries and performed his rock balancing art at the Roy Thompson Hall on September 7/06, in support of the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of the Canadian film, "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen".
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