Best General View, 2002
Found woods, brass
Lent by William Anderson
Being a client and a maker are absolutely identical in everyway. The only fresh thing in the equation is the object. –GP
The table titled Best General View belongs to a client of particular note, William Anderson. Or at least, one version of it does. The second version is a permanent fixture in Peteran’s home. The two tables exist in symbiosis, making one work between them. They implicitly regard each other “like a sight in a gun,” as Peteran has said. Other metaphors might include the lenses of two facing cameras or telescopes, or perhaps, given the rectangular frames, two mirrors reflecting one another into infinity. As is suggested by Peteran’s seemingly contradictory title, both artist and client occupy the “best” vantage point on the work, but at the same time, each is the subject of the other’s surveying (“general”) gaze.