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. Its most intact and celebrated surviving collection stands in Miami Beach, the city she now calls home. This transatlantic thread, personal, geographical, and art historical, makes Miami Beach not just a subject but a mirror. The same traveling eye that captures the world turns here toward familiar ground, discovering that familiarity does not dull the eye. It deepens it.
The layering process 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 sleek lines and geometric patterns of a façade, the pastel hues, a palm tree, a passing figure, the beachgoers, the sun, and the way the light reflects in the ocean. When interlaced, these fragments converge into a single composition that holds both the monument and the life pulsing around it, structure and movement, past and present, the architectural and the human. The hotel names ghost and repeat across the surface like signs seen through sun-dazed eyes, writing the city into memory.
Each artwork holds more than the eye can take in at once. There are figures half hidden, details that only reveal themselves on a second or third look, layers that shift depending on where the eye falls. There is always something more to find.
The Structural series invites viewers to feel the legacy of an era alive in a modern city, experience the warmth and joy of Miami Beach, lose themselves in the details, let their eyes return and see the city not just as a destination to dream about, but as a living story of art, light, and time.
