The Archive · Pieter Studio · Est. Austin

A private collection of work and study.

What has been made and examined here, kept as it was recorded. The Archive is a room, not a portfolio. Some of it is finished work; much of it is the study that made the work possible. We keep both, because one explains the other.

The broader private holdings: rooms, facades, and details recorded across the studio's work. Selective by nature, and added to slowly.

Collection 001
Collection 002
Collection 003
Collection 004
Collection 005
Collection 006
Collection 007
Collection 008

Short observations kept alongside the work. Each one continues in the Journal.

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The work behind the work. Contact sheets, rejected frames, and the light and material studies that never leave the studio. This is the most honest room in the house, and the least arranged.

PS-001
Contact Sheet 01 Twelve frames of one window. The eleventh was chosen; the rest stayed.
PS-002
Rejected Frame Technically correct and quietly wrong. Kept to remember the difference.
PS-003
Light Study Afternoon on limestone, recorded in ten-minute intervals until it turned.
PS-004
Material Study Oak, brass, plaster. Three surfaces under one light, compared.
PS-005
Layout Test An early grid for the Collection. Abandoned for being too loud.
PS-006
Exposure Bracket Five stops of the same room. The truth sat in the middle.
PS-007
Frame / Discarded Right composition, wrong hour. Reshot the following winter.
PS-008
Contact Sheet 02 The approach sequence, unedited. The drawer keeps these.

Small by design. Where the Collection holds what has been made, the Permanent Collection holds what defines the studio, the few works we formally preserve. It grows rarely, and only by decision.

Permanent 001

Permanent Collection · 001

The Waller

The first room we kept in full. Everything after it was measured against this.

Permanent 002

Permanent Collection · 002

The Solomon

The frame that set the standard, and the reason the standard exists.