Siren Cycle

Atheria Siren Cycle, is a body of work exploring sirens not as narrative figures, but as states of presence, atmosphere, and transformation.

In this piece, I intentionally move away from representation and toward non-representation. After completing a series of academic studies rooted in classical realism, returning to abstraction is not automatic. Once realism has been invoked, the hand naturally seeks recognizable form. The eye wants to resolve the image. The body insists on appearing.

Atheria resists that instinct.

Rather than depicting a siren, this work dissolves her. Lines accumulate, overlap, and spiral into a vortex-like structure where motion replaces anatomy. There is no stable body to identify, no figure to anchor the gaze. What remains is circulation — a convergence of forces where form briefly emerges before collapsing back into movement.

This shift was deliberate. After working through sirens in an academic, classical mode — studying weight, posture, gravity, and flesh — I felt the need to return to a more unstable visual language. Atheria marks that return. It exists after the body, after the voice, after myth has loosened its grip on representation.

The name Atheria derives from aether, the upper air — an invisible medium associated with breath, vibration, and transmission. In this sense, Atheria is not a character, but a condition. The siren no longer appears as an image, but as an atmosphere. She is sensed rather than seen.

Within the Siren Cycle, Atheria occupies a distinct position. If earlier works explore incarnation and academic form, this piece moves toward residue and dispersion. It is the moment where the siren escapes figuration entirely and becomes motion, trace, and echo.

From Academic Study to Abstraction

Moving back into abstraction after realism is not a rejection of discipline, but a consequence of it. Academic study sharpens perception; abstraction tests restraint. In Atheria, realism is not erased — it is absorbed, stretched, and ultimately undone.

The vortex-like structure that defines the composition is not symbolic. It is procedural. It emerges from repetition, erosion, and accumulation. Lines lose their descriptive function and become carriers of energy. What matters here is not what the image represents, but how it moves.

Atheria is therefore less an image than an event.

Availability and Editions

Atheria is available as a limited edition print and as a screen-based digital work.

For details on editions and formats, please refer to the Unique Editions page.

Additional works from the Siren Cycle can also be viewed on my Singulart artist page:
https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/denis-leclerc-70642