Beal Lane, North Fort Myers, Florida, US

The most recent project Stefan Peters is working on, is a series of circular paintings of landscapes. Starting from images he finds on Google Earth, Stefan Peters is painting those landscapes, although not realistically. In a unique way the landscapes are represented as a kind of dioramas (scale models with painted backgrounds)

The world is presented as a model, an interior or a film set. Stefan Peters examines and accentuates how reality and its representation are related to each other, how a surrogate world takes form by replacing reality, this to achieve certain goals in human perception and its existence.
The round shape of his paintings is easily associated with a “peephole” or spyglass trough which the world is looked at.
The eye of the spectator is drawn into the circular form and remains easily in the painting. On the other hand the circular enclosed form also creates a certain distance between the landscape and the spectator.
In this project Stefan Peters keeps using the round shape like it is a sort of statement:

"The circular frame: It's the mat of this era. The world is not framed but viewed through a kind of peephole. Voyeurism lives more than ever! "