GLEN WEXLER

TWO BLIMPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT (1996)

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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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Two Blimps Passing in the Night transforms a familiar idiom into an uncanny photographic encounter. Hovering above a dark, open sea beneath a turbulent sky, two airships drift through the frame with almost ceremonial stillness. The scene is immediately legible yet quietly improbable: a world that feels coherent and atmospheric, but subtly displaced from ordinary experience. In that tension, the image reveals one of Wexler’s enduring strengths—making the impossible feel not spectacular, but strangely believable.

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The work’s emotional charge emerges through restraint. Rendered in a near-monochrome palette, the image avoids overt drama in favor of tonal depth, scale, and suspended motion. The larger blimp dominates the foreground while the second remains distant and diminished, creating a subtle narrative of proximity without contact. Their passage suggests encounter, parallel lives, missed connection, or silent recognition, but the image withholds resolution.

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That refusal of closure gives the work its lingering psychological force. At once atmospheric and invented, wry and melancholic, the image sustains a deeper ambiguity: a fleeting moment that feels both impossible and remembered, as if drawn from a shared dream just beyond the edge of certainty.