Burial Ground, installed at Oakwilde Sculpture Park near Stockton, CA, was the counterpart to an earlier work titled Spawning Ground. With Spawning Ground, the viewer was transported into the spawning bed of a salmon, with the work focusing on reproduction and new life. With Burial Ground Peterson buried a trout carcass in a Redwood box with a camera which documented the decay of the trout over a period of six months, serving as a meditation on the final stages of a life cycle. The viewer had the opportunity to view the process by scanning a QR code and watching on their smart phone.  The artist anticipated that the fish would completely decay, but instead a mold colony grew and died, creating a new life cycle within the trout’s final stages, and mummifying the trout’s body in the process. This unexpected preservation reanimated the imagery for Peterson and sparked a whole new path of inquiry which the artist followed for the next seven years.