Alisha Wessler

http://www.alishawessler.com

Statement

My work emerges from a profound desire to depict imaginary worlds. Homespun yet mythic, the figures simultaneously evolve from and sustain indeterminate spaces where earth and atmosphere provide silent witness to the richness of interior life.

It is not important to me which particular story the viewer takes away with her. I am more interested in creating scenes that hint at narrative. My illustrations often elicit discomfiting feelings with their many subtle contradictions. Pretty yet strange, delicate yet morbid, surreal yet grounded in wombs and root systems - I want my images to compel participation.

My process is primarily intuitive, always stemming from the act of drawing in one form or another. The images unfold as psychological maps of secret passageways or unfamiliar dreamscapes, inviting open interpretations over any fixed narrative.