Peter Lynn works in assemblage and altered text and objects.

His work sifts through cultural artifacts, memory, and loss. It is concerned with the spaces where things don’t quite line up—between who we are and who we have been, between intention and outcome, between meaning and its collapse.

The work engages the madness of modernity: the rabbit holes we fall through, the sense of freefall, the feeling of moving faster simply to remain in place. Familiar texts and objects are cut apart, inverted, or reassembled, allowing the realities we construct together to loosen and give way to stranger wonderlands.

Recurring themes include divination and desire, time and its distortion, love and its coherence, and the not-meaning that sits behind what we see and gives meaning room to emerge. The work asks what we value, what we have forgotten, and what persists.

This work is drawn from Lynn’s experience as a father and as a public servant who has spent more than 25 years working to address homelessness in New York, Los Angeles, and King County.

His work is represented at SEMVA Gallery and Gallery 24 in Rochester, Minnesota.