(2013)

The series L.A. Core Shadow was created in Los Angeles in early 2013. Working directly on the streets, Peperski spread large sheets of white paper on sidewalks and traced shadows cast by everyday objects – cars, bicycles, café tables – using a marker. The drawings, marked with dirt, footprints, and tape, became genuine fragments of the urban environment, carrying the raw energy of street art. These outlines were later transferred to large silkscreens and printed as bold, monochrome surfaces. The works transform ephemeral shadows into lasting forms, playing with the tension between presence and absence, positive and negative. A shadow both reveals what light cannot reach and testifies to the object that blocks it—yet, in Peperski’s prints, the shapes take on their own life, detached from their origins. Printed on heavy handmade paper, the works are saturated with vivid colors—yellow, green, orange, deep blue—contrasting sharply with the white of the page. The intensity of color lends weight and vitality to forms that once existed only as fleeting traces on the pavement. In this way, L.A. Core Shadow captures the immediacy of the street while translating it into a striking, lasting visual language.