Its all right there, all you have to do is look for it.

No I'm not talking about finding your big break in the 'big city' or the next 100x memecoin (gag). Im talking, as always, about art, about the beauty of our everyday, about all the little things that make up the lexicon of our lives. The moments of Sonder and Pareidolia only found through truly looking at a world beyond your own hands.

So often art is held up and removed from the reality that birthed it, in doing so all the mess is cut away, like a magic trick or a film set façade, the audience never sees the supports, and so they they see something inherently unapproachable, unobtainable, a world removed from theirs, only to be observed. Now this mystery is not inherently a bad thing, after all we love magic, but if you want more magic in the world, you have to let people know how they can perform those tricks, how they can find it in their everyday lives.

This is what I find so successful about the work of @douglasrmccurdy and @Peanug420 presented by @caravanapresent at @ArtverseParis. Their work demystifies the act of street photography, of sculpture, of sketch. They lay bare the back of the faux buildings, show you up the magicians sleeve, and you know what? it just makes you appreciate the end result even more.

On screens around the gallery you see P.O.V footage of Douglas and Peanug walking for hours through the city streets, through snow and night, you see them stop, exchange words, crouch low, shift angles, wave frantically at motion activated lights ,and make light conversation with those who stop by to talk.

Through it all there are no divine rays of light, no magical alignments, no perfectly frozen scenes. See often I hear outsiders talk about street photography in terms like this, in terms of luck, of chance to see and be in these moments. They see the end photo and forget about the world that was moving through and around that frame. It is no fault of their own, after all if the end photo is good it truly does seem like it must have been captured in a moment of perfect alignment, that such a moment of beauty must have been obvious to all those around when it happened, that the light ray shone exclusively on that scene, and that you are just unlucky you never get to see things like that.

All of that false mystery is removed by the POV footage that accompanies the street photography in this show. It shows how very attainable a world filled with art is to everyone, all you need to do, is look for it.

This sense of approachability, the reaffirmation of the artist as human, this Sonder, is present throughout the show. From Peanugs forthright celebration of their sketchbooks, through to their bringing to the fore the use of new technology in 3D printed sculpture and hanging systems for their work. They aren't hiding the messy edges of creation nor the necessary practicalities of the artists working process in the modern age. In fact they are celebrating them, as seen in the rough stitched edges of their fabric prints, and their experimental embrace of the hanging hardware as part of the artwork.

Across the gallery on Douglass side we see this same sense of approachability expressed differently. Contained in the frames and large white matte trappings of fine art are works filled with energy, raw expression and a sue of materials that invites a sense of curiosity as hints of reflection shine out between vivid red strokes. These framed works are accompanied by sculptural pieces, they feel like someone broke in to a construction site and made graffiti, not from spray paint but from found materials, twisted metal flows like wire in to floral shapes, contained by hard cages that seem as though they could have been placed over these blooms upon their discovery, a desperate attempt to contain this inexplicable coming to life of metal and material.

They don't feel otherworldly, they feel more like a part of this world we don't look at, like when you get a peak between the boards on a construction site and see a fox den in the vacant lot. It's a world that is always there technically, but you just cant quite see it beyond all the demands society places on your time and eyes.

This is what I truly love about this show and these two artists, they remind you of just how obtainable the beauty of the world is, they show how possible it is to shape reflections of that beauty, they are Penn and Teller, even as they reveal the trick they make it all the more wonderful by doing so.