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Petra's art is inspired by Outsider artist practices, folk-art traditions and her ongoing collection of vintage books and catalogues, old photographs, folk music and textiles. She is particularly interested in the form of the catalogue, her own collection features catalogues of Birds, musical instruments, knitwear, furniture, and antiques. This collecting obsession informs her own work on wood.

"Each puzzle is a drawing. Each suggests a doorway, window, an archway -- each suggests the possibility of coming undone. They are secrets, interior excavations, made from any material, and packaged in cardboard. Like books, they are intimate, held, handled, explored, then closed and put away."

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" The drawings themselves are relatively simple in structure and execution. They are made quickly with a ballpoint pen, a ruler, and a homemade version of large scale carbon paper (oil paint applied to paper). The result is a primitive transfer process that ‘records’ in oil paint, not only the intended lines of the drawing, the ideas themselves, but just as importantly, the unpredictable marks of chance."   - Sean Sullivan