Residual Core

Posted on 23 July 2025 | by Denis

Residual Core: A Digital Exploration of Memory and Tension

Residual Core is part of the Core Archive series — a contemplative body of work exploring digital density, suspended matter, and the quiet residue of memory. This piece unfolds through slow visual gestures, animated textures, and a persistent tension between form and erosion.

The animation begins with large textured surfaces. These gradually reveal themselves through opacity. In addition, a soft color field spills in, like sediment drifting into view. Subtle pulsations and blurred thresholds evoke something unresolved — the trace of guilt, or the heaviness of thought that won’t dissipate.

A looping motion suggests that even stillness is alive with tension. The ambient soundtrack, composed specifically for this piece, combines deep tones, granulated pulses, and occasional atonal surges. As a result, the audio mirrors the slow, layered rhythm of the composition.

Residual Core: Contextual Reflection

Residual Core emerges from a reflection on what remains after the visible has dissolved — a digital residue that resists erasure. Within the Core Archive series, this piece becomes a form of emotional sediment. It captures what is left behind when presence becomes memory, or when clarity fades into abstraction.

Inspired by erosion, guilt, and the limits of perception, the artwork invites the viewer to engage with what is unseen. In contrast, there’s a tension between exposure and concealment. The form seems to struggle to surface through a fog of time. It resists full comprehension and asks for contemplation rather than resolution.

Residual Core: Printed Edition

Residual Core is also available as a high-resolution archival print. It is produced with giclée technology on Hahnemühle Photo Rag — a fine art paper known for its soft texture and museum-quality depth.

This edition translates the digital density and visual tension of the screen-based version into a tangible object. Therefore, the printed work retains the layered composition and textured atmosphere of the moving image. It offers a contemplative presence, even in stillness.

Prints are available in three formats through the Limited Edition collection. Each print includes a 1-inch white border. In addition, all editions come signed and include a certificate of authenticity.

Watch the reel

View the contemplative reel for Residual Core on Instagram. The video includes text segments and audio developed specifically for this digital piece.

Compression Field

Posted on 25 June 2025 | by Denis

Where Pressure Becomes Form

The Art of Subtle Emergence

Compression Field is part of Liminal Drift, a digital art series designed for the screen. These works explore the threshold between motion and stillness, between signal and silence. In this piece, a fractured presence slowly emerges through a dense, vibrating field—a flicker, then a fissure. What appears minimal at first begins to register as tension, pressure, and form. This visual metaphor resonates with the concept of a field in physics under stress.

The Fracture as Form

There is no visible event. No explosion. Instead, the surface holds. And then, something yields. The central fissure in Compression Field does not break the composition apart; it shapes it. The fracture becomes form, not an interruption, but a transition. This emergence echoes the idea of containment giving way to presence, as though the artwork itself is exhaling after holding its breath.

Visual Texture and Motion in Compression Field

The work is presented in grayscale, rich in grain and subtle light shifts. Its softness contrasts with the vertical crack that anchors the composition. That crack may suggest erosion, vibration, compression, or resonance—but it remains open to interpretation. The work is not declarative; it invites stillness, and perhaps a perceptual pause.

Compression Field as a Screen-Based Animation

As part of the Liminal Drift project, Compression Field was also rendered as a silent animation, shared as a contemplative Instagram Reel. The piece culminates in a quote by David Bohm: “Everything is enfolded in everything,” referring to his interpretation of quantum mechanics and the implicate order. Learn more about David Bohm’s perspective on quantum theory.

Available Formats – Dimension Collection

Each piece in the Liminal Drift series is available as a collectible pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, using Giclée technology. Prints include a 1-inch white border for framing. Learn more on the Unique Editions page.

Miniature Marvel – 12 in wide, variable height – 504 $
Grand Gesture – 24 in wide, variable height – 1024 $
Monumental Piece – 36 in wide, variable height – 1924 $

Threshold

Posted on 16 June 2025 | by Denis

Threshold – Liminal Drift

Threshold is part of the digital art project Liminal Drift by Denis Leclerc. First envisioned as a screen-based experience, the work now also exists as a still image; this print version stands on its own, quiet, self-contained, and suspended in silence. It explores the space between motion and stillness, between what appears and what slips away. In its soft presence and gentle restraint, Threshold nods to Agnes Martin and her idea of beauty as “innocence of mind.”

Soft gradients fade into a hazy depth. A shimmer hints at a boundary — perhaps a line, or the ghost of one. However, nothing settles. The image refuses to declare itself. As a result, viewers are invited to wait, to feel the uncertainty rather than resolve it.

Thresholds suggest beginnings, but they also imply hesitation. In this way, this work sits in that pause, between one moment and the next. It hovers between visibility and disappearance, between perception and intuition.

Threshold as Silent Motion

The animation unfolds slowly and without sound. Its pace encourages a meditative gaze. Text fades in gradually, appearing in three simple segments:

Not yet an image
Just a hesitation
Threshold

Together, these phrases appear gently, framed by silence and space. A subtle audio track accompanies the animation, blending with the pacing of the visual rhythm. It doesn’t dominate — instead, it amplifies the atmosphere without drawing attention to itself.. This contemplative movement echoes the quiet precision of Agnes Martin’s grids. However, while her forms remain fixed, this one drifts. It doesn’t state, it suggests. The animation also exists as a Reel on Instagram, where it introduces the tone and spirit of the Liminal Drift series.

Explore the Liminal Drift Series

Liminal Drift is an evolving body of work by Denis Leclerc. Each piece within the series explores liminality, slow transitions, and the poetics of near-absence. The series invites viewers to linger — not for resolution, but for resonance. Stillness becomes active. Motion becomes thought.

Print Available

The final still image of Threshold is also available as a collectible print through the Dimension Collection. These limited-edition prints use Giclée technology on Hahnemühle Photo Rag and include a 1-inch white border for framing. More than a captured frame, each print stands on its own. It transforms a fleeting gesture into a lasting presence.

Miniature Marvel – 12 in wide × 15.0 in tall – 504 $
Grand Gesture – 24 in wide × 30.01 in tall – 1024 $
Monumental Piece – 36 in wide × 45.01 in tall – 1924 $

Each edition comes signed, numbered, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. For acquisition or exhibition inquiries, please get in touch.