“Driving out of town,
as landscapes blur by,
fond memories
of childhood visits to a family farm:
the barn, the land, the grass,
the space,
timeless slowness,
come together in my mind.
A quiet stillness
lingers.”
– Peter
In “Field Work”, Peter Dušek captures the essence of rural architecture—barns, silos, and country buildings—through a series of photographs that reimagine these structures as part of a broader dialogue with the land they occupy. By dividing each image into distinct colour fields and shapes, Peter distills the complexity of these landscapes into bold, elemental planes, revealing the subtle and striking ways in which buildings and their environments intersect.
The colour fields serve as both a literal and metaphorical framework. They carve the frame into zones where the rich reds of a barn’s paint stand apart from the snow-covered roof whose whites blend into the winter sky, or where the soft blues of a twilight sky become part of the composition of barn and drifts of snow. This division is not arbitrary—it mirrors the boundaries that define rural life: the line between cultivated and wild, structure and sprawl, human effort, time and natural force. Through these blocks of colour and shape, Peter highlights how country buildings stand as steadfast markers within the land, yet remain inseparable from its textures, seasons, and light. And spark our memories of where we came from and what sustains us today.
The abstraction of colour fields strips these rural scenes to their essence, exposing a raw interplay of form and space that speaks to endurance, adaptation, and coexistence—expressing a quiet but powerful connection between architecture and nature. Each photograph becomes a study in balance, a testament to how the land and its structures shape one another over time.
“Field Work” celebrates the quiet poetry of rural places, transforming functional architecture into compositions of colour and connection. Each photograph asks viewers to pause and reconsider the fields we pass by—to see them anew—recognizing them as living canvases where the stories of human presence and the land’s vastness are presented in the modern language of abstraction.
