By: Erik Desmazières

Medium: Etching, aquatint & roulette
Year: 2005
Edition: Signed, titled, dated and numbered from the ed/60. 
ImageSize: 12.75 x 9.25 inches

In Square d’Orléans, Paris, Erik Desmazières transforms a quiet architectural courtyard into a scene of layered depth and shifting perception. Dense foliage occupies the foreground, its dark, sculptural leaves partially veiling the elegant 19th-century façade behind it. The result is a subtle interplay between concealment and revelation, as the viewer peers through the organic screen toward the archway and windows beyond. With his characteristic precision in line, texture, and spatial ambiguity, Desmazières creates a composition that feels at once observational and atmospheric—a portrait of a place filtered through the rhythms of shadow, structure, and nature.