Anja Salonen is a visual artist based in Los Angeles whose work splices classical oil painting technique with the visual language of digital imagery, contemporary figuration and the chemical landscape to consider how painting functions in image culture today. Interests in formal rendering and color theory merge with contemporary aesthetics and esoteric imaginaries, creating visions of clashing perspectives where unseen connections are realized and uncanny realms are rendered material. Complex scenes of eco-horror and sensual ecstasy emerge through a world-building process resembling collage that draws from art historical, ecological, surveillance and biotechnological imagery. The paintings are scorched with the acidic colors of chemical contamination, paradoxical spatial relationships and porous representations of the figure, with bodies in slippery relation to their environments.