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Erewhon, and Other Strange Utopias

Roger Leege / April 9, 2021

The subjects of Roger Leege's digitally manipulated photographs are by turns surreal, uncanny, and rather gorgeous. They inhabit strange utopias that exist in juxtaposition to our shared, seemingly mundane reality.

[This gallery has been shortlisted for the first annual Utopia Awards. Public voting opens Aug. 1; thanks for your support!]

Selene (c) Roger Leege

Remembering Lou Jacobs (c) Roger Leege

Emmett’s Mask (c) Roger Leege

Cab Service (c) Roger Leege

Wind Tunnel (c) Roger Leege

Waiting for Doctor Benway (c) Roger Leege

Up To Me (c) Roger Leege

Thomas Grand (c) Roger Leege

That Will Be All (c) Roger Leege

Target Market (c) Roger Leege

Artist statement:

“I believe that, in the best art work, regardless of artist, medium, or subject, there is a coherent, surprising, intensifying, and inseparable mixture of ‘speech’ (technical craft) and ‘story’ (creative dialog with an audience). The mix of sense and skill is essential. I’m with Paul Klee, who said, ‘One eye sees; the other feels.’ Or, put another way by Anäis Nin, ‘We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.'”

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Roger Leege

Roger Leege draws on his past as a lawn boy, meat cutter, storyteller, trucker, EMT, trim carpenter, bass player, painter, embalmer’s assistant, printmaker, analog photographer, journalist, videographer, dissident, educator, computer scientist, Florida man, and very private investigator, to create words and pictures that range from straight to strange. He started out as a painter, printmaker, and an analog photographer, earning BA and MA degrees in Visual Arts from Goddard College. During postgrad university study in computer science, he was an early adopter and evangelist for digital art and artists’ tools. Selected portfolios are at www.rogerleege.net.