GLEN WEXLER

THE GREAT DIVIDE (2024)

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Dimensions: 13 x 13 in.

Edition: 7 + 1 AP

Medium: Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic with resin varnish

Frame: Ebony walnut float frame

Price: $1,800

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The Great Divide stages a luminous human presence at the threshold between earth and cosmos, embodiment and abstraction. A radiant figure—drawn in a web of glowing lines and nodes—stands within a nocturnal landscape of water, mountains, and sky while a comet-like form arcs above. The image reads simultaneously as apparition, data structure, and witness: a figure both grounded in the terrain and permeated by forces that exceed it.

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The work’s central tension lies in the ambiguity of the “divide” itself. The glowing network that defines the body suggests mapping, computation, and systems of relation, yet it also appears fragile, provisional, and incomplete — more emergent field than fixed identity. Rather than presenting separation as absolute, the image proposes a threshold condition in which distinctions between human and environment, signal and spirit, material and immaterial

remain active but permeable. The figure becomes a site of translation where multiple orders of experience briefly intersect.

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Color and atmosphere intensify this suspended relation. The warm luminosity of the figure and foreground meets the cooler expanse of water and night sky, creating a charged dialogue between intimacy and distance, grounded presence and cosmic scale. The work invites the viewer to consider division not only as rupture, but as the very space in which connection becomes newly visible.