Hello, and thank you for your interest in my work! My name is Emily Rand Wilson. I'm a printmaker, educator, and lifelong Texan.​

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Recently, I have been especially interested in the quiet strangeness of familiar places: rural roads, suburban developments, highways, neighborhoods, open fields, fences, lawns, trees, and the uneasy edges where the natural world and the built environment meet. I often return to rural and suburban Texas because it feels both deeply familiar and increasingly strange. The spread of subdivisions, concrete, roads, fences, and perfect lawns can look ordinary while it is happening, which is part of what makes it unsettling.

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A lot of my recent work has focused on animals. I am drawn to them as living presences within landscapes constantly altered by human expansion. They can feel watchful, vulnerable, ordinary, symbolic, or slightly uncanny. I keep thinking about the way animals and landscapes exist alongside us, quietly absorbing the consequences of human decisions without being able to participate in them.

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Through drawing, printmaking, digital imagery, and observational work, I try to slow down attention and make these familiar environments feel visible again. My work asks viewers to notice what is being displaced, normalized, or overlooked in the places we move through every day.

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I also sometimes just make things that are fun and bring joy. (-: