There are days when I wonder if we still know how to look at nature.
Here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, under a sun that never negotiates, and rains that arrive without warning, I feel something changing in the landscape. Something that can no longer be ignored.
My work is not activism. It is attention.
When I build a painting layer after layer — oil and pigment on canvas — I slow down. I observe. I translate what I feel into material.
Nature speaks in gradients. In textures. In the tension between what stays and what dissolves.
That is what atmospheric abstraction holds. Not a statement. A moment of looking.
Contemporary art does not have to explain a crisis to engage with it. It can simply be present.
Claire Lassonnery
French contemporary abstract artist
Atmospheric abstraction