Painter @emma_webstah’s off-kilter landscapes have drawn comparisons to those of Albert Bierstadt, John Singer Sargent, the Hudson River School, and Walt Disney animations. With each increasingly complex tableaux—created from digital studies of simulated environments—Webster poses a question: how do we—or should we—capture the natural world circa 2022? “Landscape painting is really a history of space and how we perceive it and where things are against a horizon,” she says. “What I’m interested in is the ways in which we’re used to being lied to and the ways in which we’re not.” At the link in bio, meet the 33-year-old artist who’s challenging our perceptions of reality. _ Photography: @StephanieNoritz Writer: @eksnels Details of ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Paramount,’ Courtesy of the Emma Webster