Wilderness Bends: Letha Wilson’s Landscapes Fold into Steel and Sky

The American landscape has long been a muse for photographers, shaping how the nation imagines its wild spaces. Letha Wilson takes this tradition and quite literally bends it, transforming photographs of sweeping vistas into sculptural forms that merge nature with industry. Her process is a three-act play: first, solitary journeys into the wild to capture fleeting light and geometry; next, a studio phase where images mingle and morph, tested as cardboard fragments before taking on new shapes; finally, the photographs are printed on metal, cut, folded, and welded into striking hybrids of image and object. Wilson’s works, on view at GRIMM in London, refuse to stay flat—Idaho skies and New Mexico moons rise and twist, their surfaces marked by the artist’s own hand. Each sculpture offers shifting perspectives, echoing how landscapes are never just seen, but constructed and reimagined. In Wilson’s hands, the American wilderness is not just observed, but re-forged—caught between memory, material, and the machinery of modern life. #ContemporaryArt #LandscapePhotography #Sculpture #Culture