About the Artist: Peter Camani (pronounced Ka-mar-nee) B.A. has been an artist and teacher of Art at the Secondary School level in Ontario since the mid-'Seventies. An eclectic by nature, his interests have included marathon running, martial arts, farming, aviculture, in addition to painting and sculpture.
Inside the mind of the artist is the dominant preoccupation with permanence. Thousands of works have been lost over the ages, often to marauding armies, sometimes to thieves, sometimes to natural disasters. With the loss of the art we suffer the loss of the message, the conceptual essence of the artist embodied in the work. To this end, the emphasis is on art for all to see and interact with on a permanent basis, art which cannot be stolen, bought, or otherwise hidden from the eyes of the world.
Solitude: shunning the paradoxical behavior of the monks (hermits gathered together), the artist continues to engage in solitary pursuits. The marathon runner has become the marathon sculptor; the distance of the marathon has become the span of life and more as he seeks to leave immortal remains to house mortal remains, the "Eternal Plan". Amidst the heads and disks the solitude of the park envelopes the visitor in a peculiar silence, a silence both quieting and disquieting, penetrated only by the eerie scream of the peacock .