“Spheres and Other Worlds”

Multimedia artist Brigitte Moeckli takes us on a journey into dreamlike worlds of water and plants with her photographic works. These works also serve as templates, pictorial music sheets for her musical improvisations. Color and tonal vibration frequencies are very similar phenomena in different sensory channels.

We see fascinating bubble formations, plants, and trees created from an initial movement, from a creative core. From this creative core, spheres and diverse worlds unfold, interacting spontaneously and freely. They unfold in different forms, such as bubbles, leaves, branches, trees and flowers and all have a self-contained inner world with permeable boundaries. Rigid boundaries do not exist in nature. Even stones are porous. Spheres, in whatever form, cannot survive in isolation. They need the environment to manifest and sustain themselves.

Light, in its various facets and from different sources, is, alongside color and form, a particularly important element in photography. The works show plays of light, light reflections on water and enchanting, mystical lighting conditions that reveal themselves in brief moments during a long stay in nature.

All photographs are immediate expressions of a moment in which the artist’s intense emotions collided with corresponding visual signals from the outside world. They are an expression of the artist’s soulscape, reflected in nature. There are different aspects to this reflection. It reveals the artist’s personal side, representing her interests, state of mind and personal search for meaning. There is as well the transpersonal part, which reflects collective content that is relevant to society and humanity. Finally, something of what Jung calls the self-part, which refers to the nameless root of our being, is illuminated. The photographs are therefore always also an atmospheric expression of the human “conditio humana”.

The photographs do not only document an external situation but are also a visual metaphor for the emergence and transience of the moment. Movement, spontaneous, random flickering light, and pixels that create small dots of color or brushstrokes, as in impressionist paintings, are elements of the artist’s aesthetic research. The idea is to experiment with the camera to create photographs that are a testimony to light in in its various forms of expression, going beyond the mere depicted object and questioning reality as merely a material manifestation. Like quantum particles, pixels have an inherent tendency to create new patterns and have the potential to create new images, new worlds.

The photographs are not color-altered. All works are available on paper or on Plexi mount.

Brigitte Moeckli 2025