Peter Wegner

Reverse Atlas

I don't look at a map and see the territory–I look at a map and see the map! I think of it as an atlas in reverse. Its job is not to help me find my way, but to help me lose myself among its mountains and valleys, its curved and straight and dotted lines, its softly printed color.

Reverse Atlas V pigment print on acid-free cotton rag, framed: 37″ x 37″ x 1.5″, 2009

Reverse Atlas VIII pigment print on acid-free cotton rag, framed: 37″ x 37″ x 1.5″, 2009

Reverse Atlas III pigment print on acid-free cotton rag, framed: 37″ x 37″ x 1.5″, 2009

Reverse Atlas IV pigment print on acid-free cotton rag, framed: 37″ x 37″ x 1.5″, 2009

Reverse Atlas I pigment print on acid-free cotton rag, framed: 37″ x 37″ x 1.5″, 2009

Reverse Atlas IV installation view, LA, 2009