 She wrote of the paint chip works that "there is always the problem of capital and its ideological effects.After all the paint chip is an advertising tool—a ploy to make a buck on a dream.Wegner's work makes these systems palpable, not through barefaced institutional critique, but by quietly elbowing some room into their rigid structures or—as he says in his book "The Other Today Is the One You Want" (2002)—by ‘open[ing] up the space between the lines’ and ‘push[ing] back the horizon.’"

A third theme identified in Wegner's work is language.