GLEN WEXLER

PART OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL (2024)

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Dimensions: 25 x 25 in.

Edition: 20 + 2 AP

Medium: Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic

Frame: White box frame with museum acrylic

Price: $3,200

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Part of Something Beautiful stages an encounter between the constructed, the living, and the cosmic. In the foreground, a luminous figure stands before an immense tree beneath a radiant night sky. The image reads at once as landscape, vision, and allegory: a moment of stillness charged with awe, where light and atmosphere transform the scene into a field of presence rather than a fixed narrative event.

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Its emotional force emerges through a balance of intimacy and vastness. Positioned just behind the figure, the viewer shares a posture of witness and orientation. The glowing tracery across the body suggests a mapped interior life — part circuitry, part constellation—while the surrounding web of light evokes mycelial networks, neural pathways, and celestial patterning. These layered forms propose a continuum of connection — universal, human, and nonhuman — in which intelligence appears distributed rather than singular, moving across bodies, organisms, landscape, and sky.

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The tree — ancient, rooted, and expansive — anchors the work’s deeper sense of time and belonging, while the illuminated terrain dissolves boundaries between matter and energy, earth and atmosphere. In this register, Wexler’s improbable realities are articulated through interdependence and relational systems, with light, scale, and atmosphere becoming the means by which connection is felt before it is fully named.