Heather Peters is an artist and writer whose work explores the ideas of time and materiality through an investigation into the historical, physical and scientific nature of art materials, working with time-based materials such a hand-bound books, handmade paper, chromatography, video and cyanotype, she creates uniquely immersive pieces that bleed out from a center point and catch the viewer in a web of interactive understanding. The often technical and material based process decides the outcome of her pieces, which are not passive but speak to the history of information and the human touch by incorporating painting, writing, and movable paper and book structures that are often sculptural installations. Her work uses the art making practice to create a trail that leads to a finished product containing the elements of the process in the way that geology can be un-teased to provide a map of time.
To achieve an artifact of actions and effort with the materials of art making is a monument to a brief moment of an experience that was fleeting but is now caught forever in a physical record. It is a proof of existence, and proof of the substance of life.