 Peterman's work is an example of adaptive reuse though he was practicing it long before it had an official title.Peterman takes existing objects and manipulates them to show their original purpose while exposing the possibility for newness.His work explores the "intersection of art and ecology" and he "embraces a wide variety of formal and situational strategies, and employs a range of materials including recycled plastic and metals, as well as organic and post-consumer waste."