The Structural Series is a tribute to the Art Deco architecture of Miami Beach, and a meditation on what it means to see beauty not as a visitor, but as someone who has made it home. Art Deco was born in 1920s Paris, the city where Charlotte’s artistic sensibility was formed, and its most intact surviving collection stands in Miami Beach, the city she now calls home. That thread between her two cities makes Miami Beach not just a subject but a mirror.
The layering fragments and reassembles the iconic hotels of Ocean Drive, not as they stand, but as they are felt and remembered. Each layer holds a piece of the whole: the geometric lines of a façade, the pastel hues, a palm tree, a passing figure, the beachgoers, the sun, the way the light falls on the ocean. Interlaced, they converge into one composition that holds both the building and the life pulsing around it, structure and movement, past and present. The hotel names ghost and repeat across the surface like signs seen through sun-dazed eyes, writing the city into memory.
The series invites the viewer to find the legacy of an era alive in a modern city, to lose themselves in the details, and to see Miami Beach not as a place to dream about, but as a living story of art, light, and time.
