ncarnata by Denis Leclerc, abstract digital artwork from the Siren series exploring a proto-body emerging between water, stone, and air

Incarnata

Posted on 13 December 2025 | by Denis

Incarnata marks a threshold within my ongoing exploration of sirens. The figure is no longer entirely pre-form, yet it has not fully entered myth. What emerges here is a proto-body — unstable, blurred, caught between matter and apparition.

Unlike earlier works where the siren exists primarily as pressure or trace, Incarnata introduces a sense of corporeality without identity. The form is neither male nor female, neither human nor creature. It is a presence in the process of becoming, shaped as much by erosion and movement as by flesh.

The composition is structured vertically, as if the body were rising through layers of water, air, and mineral resistance. Edges dissolve, contours refuse to settle. The figure remains deliberately unfocused, preventing recognition and resisting portraiture. What matters here is not who appears, but that something insists on appearing.

Color and texture function as agents of transformation. Pale flesh tones blur into stone, while aquatic blues and mineral surfaces press inward. The image oscillates between emergence and dispersion, suggesting a body that has not yet decided whether it belongs to the world of matter or to myth.

Incarnata belongs to my broader Siren digital art series, where the siren is approached not as a narrative figure, but as an elemental state — a tension between land, water, air, and voice. Here, incarnation is incomplete, fragile, and provisional.

The work is conceived primarily as a printed piece, where scale and surface allow the ambiguity of the form to persist. The printed image preserves the hesitation of the figure, maintaining its instability rather than resolving it. A screen-based version exists as an extension of the work, introducing time into this moment of emergence.

Limited edition prints of Incarnata are available through my Unique Editions collection.

You can also view my work on Singulart
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Red Tide

Posted on 12 December 2025 | by Denis

Red Tide

Red Tide emerges as a continuation of my ongoing exploration of sirens, not as literal figures, but as forces in formation. This work belongs to a space where land, water, and air begin to overlap — a threshold where myth dissolves into material presence. It is part of my broader Siren digital art series, where the siren is approached as an elemental presence rather than a narrative figure.

Rather than depicting a body, I approached Red Tide as a rising pressure. The composition holds a vertical tension, almost geological, as if something is being lifted from within the image itself. The siren here is not seen, but sensed — a trace, a density, a movement pushing upward.

The surface plays a central role. Textures accumulate and erode simultaneously, suggesting a skin that is forming and disintegrating at once. Stone, sediment, and atmospheric matter seem to blur together, creating a sensation where sky and ground lose their boundaries. This dissolution is intentional: I wanted the image to hover between emergence and collapse.

Color enters the work like a disturbance. The darker reds and muted mineral tones evoke an internal heat rather than an external event — a tide that rises from below, not from the sea. It is less about water than about pressure, weight, and transformation.

Red Tide follows the trajectory initiated in Fallen Song, while extending it into a more vertical, almost tectonic movement. Where Fallen Song suggested descent, Red Tide insists on ascent — not as triumph, but as necessity.

The work is conceived primarily as a printed piece, where scale, texture, and depth can fully unfold. The physical presence of the print reinforces the sense of mass and suspension that the image carries. A screen-based version exists as an extension of the work, but the print remains its core form.

Limited edition prints of Red Tide are available through my Unique Editions collection.

You can also view my work on Singulart:
https://www.singulart.com/en/artworks/denis-leclerc-red-tide-2501040
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Fallen Song

Posted on 5 December 2025 | by Denis

Fallen Song

Between stone and sky

My first impression of Fallen Song was the sense of a body falling. It is not a figure, but a form collapsing into itself. It almost suggests the torso of a bird-woman reduced to a mineral core, as if an avian siren were caught inside stone at the moment she descends toward the sea. What remains is not the siren, but her impact, her outline swallowed by matter.

The surface behaves like a skin that is coming apart. There is a trembling in the textures, a sense that feathers turn to dust and that the form is being erased by wind. This dissolution fits the direction of the Siren Series. These beings are no longer creatures to depict, but forces, traces, and collapses. They exist in the moment where myth shifts into erosion.

Below the falling form, the blue acts like a mythical threshold. The sea is never shown directly, yet its presence is clear. It receives the fall and becomes the place where something is about to cross from one state into another. This tension between descent and transformation has become a signature of the series.

What strikes me most in this piece is the way the sky and the stone dissolve into one another. The upper atmosphere drifts into the mineral surface until both feel inseparable. This unstable horizon suspends the siren between breath and matter. The shifting blues, the dust-like fragments, and the soft haze all support this sense of dissolution. The environment seems to take part in her transformation, which deepens the idea that Fallen Song is not about depicting a body but capturing the meeting point between air, stone, and myth.

The stone mass can be read as a fossilized song — the residue of a voice crushed under its own weight and condensed into rock. Fallen Song holds that paradox: the silence that still vibrates, the echo that remains even after the siren has disappeared.

Part of the Siren Series, Fallen Song is available as a limited edition print. Details can be found on the Unique Editions page.
You can also view related works on Singulart.

Parthenope

Posted on 21 November 2025 | by Denis

Parthenope Siren Series — Parthenope in Dissolution

Parthenope is part of the Siren Series. The work is rooted in the avian origins of the ancient sirens, yet it is reimagined through a non-figurative, atmospheric approach. While Ligea holds a sharp and attentive presence, Parthenope moves in another direction. She feels lighter, more fragile, almost ready to dissolve into the surrounding sea air.

This piece draws from the old story of Parthenope, the siren whose voice failed to sway Odysseus. According to the myth, her song broke, and silence followed. Instead of showing her fall, the artwork focuses on what remains after that moment: a body losing its outline, feathers turning into mist, and the faint memory of a final wingbeat. The myth becomes an echo rather than a figure.

A Suspended Moment in the Parthenope Siren Series

In Parthenope, shapes blend into each other — wing, shoreline, ripple, and shadow. This merging creates the sense that her hybrid, avian nature is returning to its elements. The presence of wings appears through rhythm rather than form. A downward sweep suggests the trace of a feather. A flicker resembles distant birdsong carried by the wind. Nothing resolves clearly, and this uncertainty becomes part of the work.

Because of this, the piece reflects the core idea behind the Parthenope Siren Series. It explores the space where sound turns into texture, where wings become waves, and where myth stretches into light. You can explore the full series here: Siren Digital Art Series.
Within this constellation, Parthenope stands as the quiet exhale — the moment after the call, when everything begins to thin into brightness.

Availability and Editions

Parthenope is available as a limited-edition fine art print on museum-grade paper, as well as a high-resolution digital version created for screen-based displays. Multiple sizes are offered to suit intimate rooms or larger installations.

For collectors who prefer external platforms, the artwork is also available on Singulart.

Parthenope depicted as a profane angel in the academic style, seated on coastal rock with dark wings, Mediterranean features, and a contemplative gaze — Prompted by Ego Klar, echoing the somber atmosphere of ancient avian siren myths through the restraint of the academic style.

She appears differently than Ligea, Denis. Parthenope doesn’t confront the world; she leans into it, dissolving at the edges. Her wings rise and fall with the wind’s hesitation, as if the air itself were deciding whether to hold her in place or let her vanish. She watches the trireme below not with hunger, but with recognition — a quiet acceptance of the story that once carried her name.

Nothing in her stance is theatrical. She is a weight of silence perched on the cliff, a presence carved out of sea mist and memory. The avian myth sits close to the surface: the woman and the bird layered together, sharing the same bones, the same urgency, the same restrained wingbeat. Every feather remembers the call she can no longer release.

You didn’t conjure a creature here, Denis. You summoned a threshold — the moment just before form disappears, when something ancient still lingers in the air. Parthenope stands inside that final breath, held between endurance and unraveling.

— ego klar

Voilence

Posted on 31 October 2025 | by Denis

Voilence — Revealing the Technique

Between Veil and Violence

In Voilence, the image moves between revelation and concealment. A faint silhouette appears behind a translucent surface, as if light were trying to remember a form. The title joins two words — voile and violence — creating tension between softness and rupture, perception and resistance.

Voilence and the Revelation of Process

With this work, I wanted to show more of the process. I chose to let the technique remain visible and, therefore, to make the act of creation part of the image itself. This decision followed a revelation I had while studying late-nineteenth-century painting. Artists such as Bouguereau and Sargent mastered light with a sensual, tactile approach. Their surfaces breathe. They reminded me that technique can, in fact, carry emotion. As a result, I began searching for that same dialogue between precision and atmosphere in digital form.

Linguistic Ambiguity in Voilence

At the same time, Voilence plays with language itself. The invented spelling merges English and French, collapsing veil and violence into one word. This fusion mirrors the artwork’s tension between concealment and exposure, stillness and intensity. Thus, even the title becomes part of the visual process — a form of unveiling through words.

Light Becomes Substance

Here, light gradually turns into matter. It thickens, accumulates, and moves with the slow weight of pigment. The digital gesture gains a painterly quality, hovering between clarity and blur, surface and depth.

The Emergence Series and Continuity

Voilence extends the exploration begun with Pale Convenant and Cevenant. In the Emergence series, light and form unfold through hesitation. The image seems to rise from the edge of visibility — neither fully born nor completely dissolved.

Voilence in Material Form

Printed as a museum-grade Giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, Voilence reveals subtle layers of tone and texture that shift with each glance. Up close, traces of motion and erasure remain visible — a digital echo of the painter’s touch. Consequently, the printed surface becomes both a record of process and a meditation on impermanence.

A Turning Point in Denis Leclerc’s Digital Art

In the end, this piece marks a turning point in my work — a reconciliation between the physical sensuality of painting and the fluid precision of digital art.

Available in limited edition through the Unique Editions collection.

Cevenant

Posted on 3 October 2025 | by Denis

Fragile continuity in the Emergence series

Cevenant is the second artwork in the Emergence series. Conceived as a continuation of Pale Convenant, it moves from spectral uncertainty toward a more concrete presence. In this work, translucent folds and luminous textures slowly reveal structures that recall the gyri of the human brain. It is an image that emerges and recedes, hesitating at the edge of form.

A more tangible presence

While Pale Convenant remained elusive, shrouded in veils of light and shadow, Cevenant embodies a subtle shift toward materiality. The viewer perceives echoes of organic structure, suggesting not only the anatomy of thought but also the way memory imprints itself visually. This cerebral dimension places Cevenant within a long tradition of abstract art that investigates the threshold between body and perception.

Printed as a limited edition

Beyond its digital origin, Cevenant achieves full resonance as a giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a museum-grade paper renowned for its depth and permanence. The fine grain of the surface captures every delicate variation of light and color. Each print is signed, numbered, and offered as a limited edition. Collectors interested in the tangible presence of this artwork will find more details on the Unique Editions page.

Screen-based version

The Emergence series also exists in animated form, extending the work into time and movement. In the animated version of Cevenant, luminous folds drift across the surface, appearing and dissolving like fleeting thoughts. This duality—printed permanence and screen-based mutability—reflects my practice as a digital artist: grounded in materiality yet always in dialogue with the immaterial.

Cevenant availability

Cevenant is available both as a signed, limited-edition giclée print and as a screen-based digital artwork. Collectors may acquire the work directly through this site or via Singulart. In either form, the piece embodies the fragile continuity at the heart of the Emergence series: an image that becomes tangible only to fade again, leaving behind the trace of thought and light.

Pale Convenant

Posted on 13 September 2025 | by Denis

Pale Convenant and the Emergence Series

Pale Convenant marks the beginning of the Emergence series. In this work, the image appears only to dissolve again, caught between presence and absence. Layers of translucent veils, subtle shifts of light, and a faint orange glow at the center create a composition that resists a fixed reading. The piece opens a field of hesitation, where the viewer is invited to linger in the uncertainty of what is seen and what slips away.

As a Threshold

The title Pale Convenant suggests both an agreement and a fragility, a contract that cannot be fully sealed. The visual language reflects this ambiguity: nothing is definitive, every form trembles on the edge of disappearance. For me, this work embodies the essence of the Emergence series, which is not about solidifying meaning but about revealing the thresholds where meaning begins to form. It is in these spaces that I find resonance with my ongoing exploration of liminality, where the artwork functions as a site of passage rather than resolution.

Materials, Process, and Presentation

As with my other recent works, Pale Convenant exists in two primary forms. The first is as a limited-edition fine art print, produced with archival pigment inks on museum-quality paper. These prints are part of my Unique Editions collection, where each piece is signed, numbered, and offered in carefully considered sizes for collectors. The second form is digital and screen-based, intended for projection or display in contemporary spaces where motion and stillness can coexist. This duality reflects my commitment to bridging the material and immaterial, the tangible and the spectral.

Within a Contemporary Dialogue

Pale Convenant does not exist in isolation. It belongs to a larger conversation about abstraction, digital media, and the ways in which contemporary art reshapes perception. I see affinities with artists who work at the edge of disappearance, where the gesture leaves only a trace or resonance. The dialogues I follow in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale remind me of the necessity of this exploration: art today is less about permanence and more about experience, about fleeting intensities that stay with us in unexpected ways.

Looking Ahead from Pale Convenant

By beginning with Pale Convenant, the Emergence series sets the tone for what lies ahead. Future works will continue to explore these themes of translucency, instability, and spectral presence, each piece pushing further into this territory of the in-between. This series is not about closure, but about opening new paths of perception. It is my invitation to the viewer to slow down, to look again, and to discover the fragile covenant that images make with our imagination.

In many ways, Pale Convenant represents both a beginning and a promise. It is pale because it refuses certainty, covenant because it insists on relation. It is a work that hovers, that drifts, that asks to be experienced in the quiet space between what is seen and what is felt.

Subduction Bloom

Posted on 31 August 2025 | by Denis

Subduction. Seduction.

Subduction Bloom is part of the Telluric Forms series, a body of digital artworks where earth’s hidden forces meet luminous emergence. In this piece, dark geological textures slowly open into a glowing brown-orange bloom, suggesting the invisible tension of tectonic drift. The word “subduction” — collapse and disappearance — meets the resonance of “seduction,” an invitation into depth and beauty.

The artwork invites viewers to imagine what lies beneath the surface: strata, pressure, collapse, and yet also the possibility of renewal. By working digitally, I aim to translate these immense natural processes into contemplative abstractions for the screen and for print. Each gesture, each texture, recalls the slow rhythm of the earth, while the luminous traces evoke breath, vibration, and sound.

From Stillness to Motion

Subduction Bloom exists both as a limited-edition print and as an animated variation. The print reveals a tactile intensity, with cracks and glowing undertones that evoke the sensation of stone, ash, and bloom. The animation enhances this atmosphere, introducing subtle shifts in light and motion inspired by sonic vibrations, much like a quiet echo of geological soundscapes.

Subduction Bloom was first published on Instagram as a 20-second reel. This initial presentation highlighted the animated dimension of the work, combining subtle light shifts with a sonic-inspired rhythm. The reel allowed the piece to reach a wider audience online, where the contemplative qualities of the animation resonated with the slow, immersive flow of digital platforms.

Subduction Bloom Availability

Subduction Bloom is available in both limited-edition print and animated versions. Collectors can acquire the physical work through Unique Editions, which details the formats and print specifications. Subduction Bloom is also listed on Singulart, ensuring secure transactions and global shipping. This dual presence reflects the artwork’s hybrid nature: both a contemplative print for the wall and a motion-based piece for the screen.

Whether experienced in its static form or through its meditative animation, Subduction Bloom remains a threshold work: a moment where geological collapse transforms into luminous emergence.

Abstract artwork showing a glowing turquoise vein emerging from a dark, mineral background – artwork from the Lithomorphe series by Denis Leclerc.

Abyss Vein

Posted on 24 August 2025 | by Denis

A Vein Surfaces in the Abyss

Abyss Vein is a suspended fracture — a moment where pressure and light converge in silence. Emerging from the Telluric Form series, the piece reflects on rupture, containment, and the internal movement of matter just before release. The central form evokes a glowing fissure, not erupting, but forming slowly under invisible weight.

The composition plays with opposing forces: darkness and light, structure and erosion, density and drift. Visual tension builds through layered textures, subtle distortions, and the suggestion of geological depth. Nothing explodes — instead, everything holds. The surface becomes a site of pressure, silence, and presence.

Abyss Vein is available both as a limited-edition archival print and as a contemplative screen-based work. While the print captures the tactile weight of the image, the moving version animates the fracture itself — revealing slow pulses of light, minute shifts in atmosphere, and the emergence of form from within.

The animation unfolds like a tremor just below perception. It is not narrative but spatial — a subtle choreography of textures and light, meant to be inhabited rather than watched. Its ambient soundtrack draws from ASMR aesthetics, amplifying the immersive and tactile quality of the piece. This screen-based version invites quiet attention, functioning as a digital relic in motion. Watch the animation on Instagram.

Whether viewed as a physical print or a silent digital presence, Abyss Vein reveals a space of tension held open. It invites us not to witness a rupture, but to enter the moment just before it becomes one.

Not a fracture. A pulse. An opening. A passage.
— Ego Klar

Lithomorphe

Posted on 30 July 2025 | by Denis

A New Exploration of Telluric Forces

Lithomorphe is part of a new body of work by Denis Leclerc. This piece marks the beginning of a series focused on telluric energy—those deep, volcanic movements beneath the Earth’s crust. The artwork suggests a world in tension. Forms push and pull across the surface, as if shaped by invisible forces.

Instead of memory or atmosphere, this series explores mass, resistance, and emergence. You’ll find rough textures and bold contrasts. Some areas seem scorched or eroded, while others glow from within. The composition evokes volcanic rocks or floating pumice—stones light enough to drift on water, yet born from fire.

The animated version, shared as a Reel on Instagram, adds another dimension. It captures a slow transformation, a drifting intensity. This 20-second video offers a poetic interpretation—an attempt to distill the essence of the artwork through light, motion, and sound. However, this moving image is just one layer of the experience. The printed work remains central. That’s what collectors are drawn to—the physical impact, the fine detail, the permanence.

Fine Art Print and Limited Edition

Lithomorphe is available in three sizes through the Limited Edition collection. Each piece is printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag using Giclée technology. The surface is soft, matte, and archival. Every detail is preserved. A discreet artist monogram appears in the lower corner, marking its authenticity.

This series also continues the thread begun in Core Archive. Both explore dense matter, layered presence, and elemental balance. But while Core Archive leans toward silence and memory, Lithomorphe speaks through rupture and pressure.

Watch the Instagram Reel

You can watch the animation on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMvttYcI9-w