Leanne Trivett S.
Leanne Trivett S. works at the threshold between what is seen and what is felt, between the world as it appears and the world as it is remembered.
Her series “What the Garden Asked Me to Remember” draws its deepest source from Leanne’s grandmother—a porcelain painter who understood flowers not merely as subjects but as quiet companions, expressions of patience and living beauty. That grandmother’s vision, precise and tender, shaped the way a granddaughter would come to see. Leanne’s images gather those inherited fragments of perception and reimagine them through a more fluid, contemporary language: colours bleeding into one another, forms dissolving and reappearing, clarity giving way to the softness that memory itself has. To look at these photographs is to experience seeing as it actually works—layered, atmospheric, and always tinged with what came before.
Working with DSLR and mirrorless cameras, Leanne builds her pictures through in-camera multiple exposures, intentional camera movement (ICM), blur, and digital collage assembled in Photoshop. In “I Am a Reflection of What I Grow” and “The Garden Remembers,” floral forms—roses, hydrangeas, seed pods—are simultaneously hyperreal and spectral. Botanical structures float against deep, near-black grounds, shot through with radiant colour; a barely legible face emerges from petals, the self and the garden no longer distinct. In “Seed Chambers,” a single explosive bloom on a circular ground sends filaments radiating outward like a diagram of memory mid-motion. In each image, the literal and the dreamed coexist without resolution—and that irresolution is the point.
The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, one of the earliest pioneers of Western abstraction, provides a compelling parallel. Like Leanne, af Klint held that true seeing reaches beyond the visible—that feeling and time must be rendered through intuitive rather than purely descriptive means. Whereas Klint used geometry and symbols to map the invisible, Leanne uses photographic layering and dissolution; both share the conviction that art is not a record of the world but a felt encounter with what lies beneath its surface.
Vision, in this series, is understood as lineage—a way of attending to the world reverently, with devotion to what might otherwise fade, passing across generations. Leanne’s photographs are the continuation of that conversation: her grandmother’s careful gaze is present within every dissolving petal, every half-remembered colour.
Leanne Trivett S. is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores identity, memory, and emotion through experimental self-portraiture, florals, and abstraction. She holds a BFA in Theatre from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and brings a background in professional singing to her visual practice. Her work has been exhibited at the Griffin Museum, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, PH21 Gallery in Hungary, and Fotonostrum in Barcelona. She is a recipient of the EMERGE 2024 Fellowship from the Midwest Center for Photography and the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Leanne teaches at Santa Fe Workshops and Maine Media, and has three solo exhibitions forthcoming.
Leanne Trivett S. is the Silver Artist of the ArtAscent “Vision” call for artists. To see the full body of work and profile, get a copy of the 2026 ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Vision” issue.
