05/29/2026
We had the privilege of hosting Edwige Charlot for the final installment of this season's Unity Environmental University’s Artist Series. For two decades, Edwige utilized their Caribbean and Creole heritage to create art that moves and flows alongside nature. This 20-year journey has been driven by constantly challenging and pushing the boundaries of each material used in the creation of their art pieces.
“The work tells me where to go,” Edwige shares. “If a piece requires welding, then welding becomes a new skill learned.” This devotion to the craft ensures that every piece is born out of absolute necessity for the art itself.
Through the use of traditional 2D mediums such as paper and ink, Edwige is able to bridge the gap between dimensions to create a 3D world. Each piece is in its own form a labor of love, from start to finish, and in this case from drawing, to print, to plate, to collage and sometimes back again. Every stroke, stitch or shadow is deliberate, creating a piece with purpose, love and soul. These intentions are brought out in the organic imagery used, such as plant life, water, and arches seen as for what they are or mimicked through the manipulation of light. The botanical life seen within their artwork isn’t just one single plant repeatedly used but a multitude of organic matter creating a hybrid plant. A mixture of images pulled from archives are blended with Edwige’s own photography, creating not only depth in the image but weaving history, lineage and memories within each layer.
Edwige’s work relies on elements beyond a physical canvas, creating a living and breathing installation where material greets the spiritual world to dance with the light and that dark. As Edwige beautifully stated “Light is a collaborator in this work, it always has been."
Unity’s Artist Series returns in the fall, be sure to be on the lookout for updates later this summer!
