Other Worlds in a Small Room

Cottonwood is proud to announce Other Worlds in a Small Room, a solo show by Robyn Sean Peterson, a Cottonwood artist who recently relocated to Colorado Springs from Boulder County.

Peterson, who works in collage, describes his process as, “an expression of revelation rather than outer observation. A form of Mystical Realism, if you will. … It is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle that has no picture on the box for reference.” Guided by an “intelligent energetic presence,” Peterson assembles the collages from a vast collection of clippings, paper scraps and found objects, which he then cuts with an X-ACTO knife and recombines them with a photocopier and sometimes alters with a computer.

“My work not only attempts to function as a portal or window into another world, but also as a mirror that reflects the viewer’s own psychological projections back to them,” Peterson says.