Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad is a musician and artist, in the series of works the pedestrian he makes drawings and photographs from various wandering in generaly urban spaces. In a statement about his work in the book the ganzfeld (Kaput press inc. 2002) Blegvad talks about " a tendecy to look at familiar things in a way that makes them strange again," this is evident in the way he uses juxtaposition of objects, grouping and classifying of objects and personification of them.

For example here by grouping the easily un-noticed discarded elastic band, they become part of something bigger than them selves and we begin to look for similarities and differences, to evaluate the information. Taking something which we see in our day to day lives but pay little attention to, and putting them in a more visually isolated context is, I find, strangely compelling to look at. In a similar way to Harvey Pekar's American Splendor comics document his everyday life, we see nothing particularly unusual or bizarre, but are made to look at it in a new way, often thus making it seem bizarre.

Blegvad describes himself as "essentially a humorist," and this I feel is important when he tends to deal with fairly tricky abstract concepts, such as the power and importance of our imagination when interacting with art. I feel these unresolvable ideas are interesting to think about, but ultimately highly laughable.