"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."

- Wiliam Penn

Through amorphic and abstract language Petrov reveals the importance of

historical amnesia today: how former countries or civilizations and events

have vanished like a species. Assembled like puzzles, the compositions float

in and out of the past in layers of paint, as opposed to moving across the canvas

left to right. Imagine ancient posters or notices of events torn away and

pasted over repeatedly for hundreds of years. Colorful fragments echo hunting

scenes or cave drawings of battles amidst scattered fossilized vertabrae.

Each painting is a frozen world thawed out that re-animates the past.