By using minute brushstrokes that contrast the bright white of the wood pulp with the opaqueness of the dark graphite pencil, the artist creates the illusion of an immersive wood chip shower in his pieces. The swirling landscape of wooden shards often surround a central character, whether he is a leaping buck or lost-in-the-rain wooden doll. A piece in Pejac's series, titled Redemption, is a particularly imbued with irony: Suicide Torch, which depicts a tiny man carrying a fiery torch amid a forest of scattered wood. The artist describes the spectacle, "This image works a bit like a fable, where a person, despite being surrounded by wood, prefers to risk his life and light a torch enabling him to see, instead of living immersed in the darkness."In short, Redemption is meditation on man within the larger universe. "The beauty of the pressed wood seems to hide the arrogance of man in its relation with nature. These panels have [a] sort of aesthetic warmth, but at the same, a sense of devastation, making it contradictory, which directly refers to my way of understanding art."See a few photos of Pejac's newest series, Redemption, below:
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