Tales of Colours and Imagination (Gym) (2024) is an abstract photograph which takes the viewer into a dance of colours. These colours contrast incredibly well against the black background and are extremely glossy, which helps to take the viewer’s eyes and guide them across the colours. The use of macro photography here takes the viewer to the glossy texture, which would usually not be noticed from a distance- to take in the way light reacts to the object.
As the work seems to look as though it moves around, it allows the viewer to interpret it in numerous ways. One representation could be that it is a conflict between the colours- as it seems that the black and the yellow are consuming the red. While it could be a symbiotic relationship of the three colours together.
Tales of Colours and Imagination (Showcase) (2024) presents to the viewer: yellow, red, blue and black, which reflect in a glossy environment and seem to merge into one another. The fluid forms of these colours seem to have frozen yet look as though they are slowly moving; yet the reflections give us an understanding of the depth of these colours that creates a more bumpy composition. This movement, thus, helps to make it feel much more like an organic life form despite being artificial.
The reflection from the glossy colours could reflect the viewer’s self if they view the work in person. This element could suggest that this is the viewer’s perspective of the work, and the colours could represent our personalities or selves. However, these have been put up for interpretation by Wagner, allowing the utter imagination of the viewer to take over.
Tales of Colours and Imagination (Monument) (2024) continues this exploration of glossy colours. This time, it seems as though the colours are merging into the background as the gloss seems to run into the black background. Rather than fighting the colours, they seem to stop, and they overlap each other rather than seeping into each other.
Overall, Tales of Colours and Imagination (Gym, Showcase, Monument) creates interaction for the viewer by inviting them to step into this creative world in which they are to be interpreted in numerous ways. This openness between the artwork and the viewer creates a more personal work, as the viewer will now converse with the work to create their own stories.
The series creates an aesthetic choice of colours that guides our eyes towards the next colour, creating a form of colour interaction. This turns colour, as an inanimate form, into a form that is constantly moving and changing as though it has life itself. The occasional bubbles add texture and bumpiness to the work as though it’s being distracted, which could add an element of connection as the viewer may relate these to the bumpy paths that we take within our lives.