My work presents landscape as re-imagined through notions of architecture, still life, and sculpture. Shallow water systems often drive these inquiries, especially as I engage seeing as a calisthenic process. My material-driven projects, which occur across painting, print, drawing, and sculpture media, increasingly influence each other especially through shape-making, line, echo, and layer. For me, this approach coincides with how memory and dreaming work, where direct experience collides with peripheral knowledge, intuition, intention, and desire.

Léni Paquet-Morante, 2024

Léni with Two Saplings on a Shallow, 84×84″, Dec. 2022