Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20SCHEMA (definition, Merriam Webster) 1. a diagrammatic presentation; broadly: a structured framework or plan: outline 2. a mental codification of experience that includes a particular organized way of perceiving cognitively and responding to a complex situation or set of stimuli Both definitions, but particularly the second, aptly describe the three large new wall drawings that comprise Peter Soriano’s current exhibition. Made with acrylic and spray paint, the works codify and manifest Soriano’s perceptions of the spatial and temporal relationships between chosen objects. For previous works in an ongoing series of wall drawings beginning in 2012, he examined trees through a window, sections of metal rooftops, a group of rocks observed from the cardinal points of the compass, and a landscape glimpsed and noted at fifteen-second intervals from a moving train. More recently, three elements of a Richard Serra sculpture at the Colby College Museum of Art served as the starting point for a monumental work, Permanent Maintenance. (It was on view there for a year and was acquired for the permanent collection.) For the longest work in the current exhibition, Shadows (Penobscot), Soriano’s subject is the shape of shadows cast by the roofline of his house in Maine. At intervals, over a period of six months last winter and spring, Soriano staked the corners of the geometrically complex shadows, measured the distance of each from the house, then recorded the information necessary to recreate the shapes. He is intrigued, he says, by the seeming contradictions Shadow of Soriano’s house in Maine