I construct imagined worlds in ink and watercolor where I explore moments of intersection, conflict, and symbiosis. When I approach a new body of work, I ask myself how do we affect the world around us? How do realities coexist and interpenetrate? Where do boundaries begin to bleed? Lush environments become psychological spaces in which the viewer can make meaning—discovering each element as a part of a larger ecology. Shapes and textures repeat and correlate with subject matter, creating visual rhymes and thick networks of interweaving parts. I use childhood memories as allegories for contemporary issues. My work considers social and political hierarchies, destruction and degradation of the natural world, and existentialism in an age of virtuality and globalization. The core of my interest in these worlds is the relationship between the micro and the macro, and questioning what happens when the relationships within these systems become reversed or contradicted. Simultaneous moments are embedded within each composition. The insects have missions, while a child is deep in play, and the plants reach out in sensual touch. Here, worlds interlace and unravel into deeper and stranger configurations.

Lukas Wegmüller (He, Him, His) | @lukaswegmuller | lukaswegmuller.com