ART & DESIGN
Art Series by Martin Lenclos
Art and self-questioning devices from a consciousness-first design practice—made to interrupt perception and invite the viewer inward.
Last updated: March 19, 2026ARCHIVE › ART › DIGITAL PAINTING
Contours of Impermanence
Contours of Impermanence invites a quiet attention to impermanence — the way objects, value, and “usefulness” shift depending on the frame. Rendered in an impossible axonometric space, these digital paintings step slightly outside ordinary perspective. The forms are intentionally imperfect, less as symbols than as prompts: self-questioning devices that hold only the meaning we bring to them.
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Mirages of Fragmentation
Mirages of Fragmentation rebuilds urban scenes through fragmentation — a way of testing how quickly the mind turns pieces into a world. Made from hundreds of stills, each work nudges perception: color, texture, and structure reappear in unfamiliar combinations. The result is less a statement than an invitation to notice what “separation” looks like when the frame is rearranged.
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Paradox of the Typical Atypical
Paradox of the Typical Atypical is a chair designed to disrupt “normal” furniture expectations. Built to look broken while still supporting over 300 pounds, it turns function into a question: what do we assume about usefulness, comfort, and value at first glance? As a self-questioning device, it invites a small perception shift — a pause in judgment — and a return to the present moment.
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Shadows of the Mind
Printed on Unryu rice paper, Shadows of the Mind uses a restrained palette and a surface that lets the image breathe with its environment. The work sits between self and society — a self-questioning device meant to slow interpretation and invite a second look.
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Unity in Fragments
Unity in Fragments is a photo-collage series that tests what “separation” looks like in a crowded city. Immersed in New York’s pulse, each collage layers hundreds of moments until patterns start to echo — gestures rhyming across strangers, repetition hiding in plain sight. These works function as self-questioning devices: invitations to notice connection without requiring a metaphysical conclusion.
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Veil of Perception
Veil of Perception uses city scenes — double exposure, reflection, and shadow — to test how easily the mind mistakes a partial view for “the truth.” These photographs aren’t just depictions of urban life; they’re perceptual prompts, built to interrupt automatic interpretation and soften the sense of a sealed-off, separate self. If you want the tradition-language as a reference point, you can read them alongside Zen’s concern with mis-seeing — but the invitation is practical: look again, and notice what changes.
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Fluctuating Realities
Fluctuating Realities reimagines urban landscapes as intricate 3D collages built from thousands of photo sprites. The scenes behave like thought: layered, adaptive, and always in the act of assembling a world from fragments. As self-questioning devices, these works invite a close look at how perception constructs coherence — and what shifts when the frame loosens.
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Essence of Vulnerability
Essence of Vulnerability gathers rapid charcoal drawings and paintings of nude figures, rendered with minimal detail to privilege movement, gesture, and presence. The work uses vulnerability as a perceptual device: stripping away posture and performance so what remains is immediacy. Rather than making an argument, these pieces ask a simple question — what changes in us when defensiveness drops?
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Perceptual Terrain
In Perceptual Terrain, miniature furniture becomes abstract landscape — uneven, resistant, and intentionally “unusable” at first glance. The protrusions and textures interrupt default comfort-seeking and turn the object into a self-questioning device: what do I call functional, and why? The pieces don’t deny utility so much as test how quickly judgment locks in — and what becomes possible when it loosens.
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Continuum of Resilience
Continuum of Resilience is a series of wall-hanging skateboards made from naturally cracked oak, repaired with sapele butterfly inlays. The work holds the repair in plain sight: fracture becomes part of the object’s identity rather than something to hide. Each piece is a quiet prompt about continuity — what endures, what breaks, and what we choose to reinforce.
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Blueprints of Hypothesis
Blueprints of Hypothesis pairs travertine and teak in an experimental furniture series: hollow stones set against lightweight frames of wood and aluminum. The contrast — rough mineral edge and precise structure — turns the piece into a perceptual problem: weight and lightness, fragility and support, permanence and build. Rather than asserting a message, the work is designed as a self-questioning device — an invitation to notice what the mind projects onto matter.
META NOTES
This page is a living document. Last updated: March 19, 2026
I updated the Art Series page to be gallery-first: each series now features a curated 4-image set with click-to-enlarge viewing, and purchase/store pathways were removed or demoted so the work can be explored without buying pressure. I also tightened the intro and refined multiple series descriptions to emphasize craft and perceptual inquiry with lighter, less doctrinal language and more consistent CTAs/microcopy.
Newly created on November 14, 2025
MARTIN LENCLOS
“What began with Self-Questioning Devices gradually widened into something broader: a practice of using form, image, and interruption to test perception itself. These works are less statements than perceptual propositions — ways of seeing what changes when the frame changes first.”
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