Anja Salonen is a visual artist based in Los Angeles who employs traditional oil painting techniques like glazing alongside airbrushed acrylic and fabric dye, to build up many-layered images, often mirrored in the pictorial interweaving of multiple subjects. Interests in formal rendering and color theory merge with digital 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scenes of eco-horror and sensual ecstasy emerge through a world-building process resembling collage, merging art historical references with open source computer generated and photographic images, often referencing the visual language of surveillance and biotechnology. The paintings are scorched with the acidic colors of chemical contamination, paradoxical spatial relationships and porous representations of the figure, with subjects transparent to their environments.