Ysabel LeMay

The work of Austin, Texas-based visual artist Ysabel LeMay can be summed up simply: W.O.W. It stands for her ‘Wonderful Other Worlds’, digitally composed panoramas of natural splendor so vividly realized that one feels drawn to step into them. While the technique is high-tech, LeMay’s hypercollage process is instinctual and organic, allowing each piece to dictate its own destiny.

Traveling extensively, LeMay shoots plants, animals and the elements, constantly replenishing her visual catalog of the living world. From a single, simple starting point — an image, a color, an emotion — she then follows a meticulous process. Isolating and extracting elements of her photos, LeMay weaves these together into intricate compositions of resplendent beauty.

Now approaching new technological horizons, LeMay nonetheless seeks authenticity of experience over novelty. With the moments in time and spaces in the imagination she creates, she opens the door to her Wonderful Other Worlds.