An evolving body of work exploring perception, form, and identity—from the human, to the symbolic, to the shared.
THE CORE INQUIRY
L’Enclos isn’t built to give answers.
It’s built to interfere with what you think you already know.
At the center is The Dreamer Project — a living experiment in what happens when we live as if consciousness comes first. Alongside it are Practices & Tools that invite direct participation: perceptual shifts, exercises, and objects designed not to explain reality, but to test how we see. It’s a testing ground for perception.
THE WORK
Exploring Perception
L’Enclos is the evolving body of work of Martin Lenclos — an artist, designer, and philosophical observer exploring the boundary where a shift in perception reveals a different reality. It bridges media arts, experiential design, and quiet inquiry into consciousness, producing objects, images, and ideas that question how we see, and who we believe ourselves to be.
Practices of Seeing
These explorations emerge from a lifelong curiosity—not toward what things are, but how they are seen. Martin’s work moves across disciplines but always returns to a single thread: the practice of perceiving with less judgment, and more intimacy.
Devices for Inquiry
The projects here — whether a conceptual installation, a visual essay, or a handcrafted piece of furniture — are less about presentation than perception. Each one functions as a kind of device: a mirror, a question, a shift. They arise from a practice that draws equally from philosophical research and the contemplative experience of daily life, integrating media, technology, spiritual inquiry, and design without belonging entirely to any of them.
The Unifying Experiment
What unites the work is a single, ongoing experiment: to live as if reality begins in consciousness—not as doctrine, but as a way of seeing. From this point of view, even ordinary objects become symbolic, and design becomes a tool for self-inquiry.
This inquiry is personal. Martin’s practice is less about producing outcomes than noticing the mind’s habits, its fictions, its freedom. He designs not to express, but to perceive—and to invite others into that same spacious attention, where self dissolves and the Dreamer might be remembered.
The Invitation
Through artifacts of awakening, philosophical play, and immersive exploration, the work invites a quiet question: What if the world we experience is shaped not by what’s out there, but by what we are?
The pieces available through the Art Store—photographs, prints, and designed objects—are all part of this larger gesture. Some are created as “Self-Questioning Devices,” meant to interrupt mental habits and provoke subtle shifts in awareness. Others are simply invitations to see more slowly.
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Before The Dreamer?
Before L’Enclos, I was already exploring the edges of perception through media arts. From 3D installations to photographic collages, my early projects asked audiences to question how they see and what reality might be. These experiments became the groundwork for today’s inquiry into consciousness-first design.
Why L’Enclos?
L’Enclos is a name inspired by the quiet mystery of French churchyards and by my grandfather—a sculptor and designer of sacred furniture, who taught me that everyday objects could hold silence, memory, and meaning.
ABOUT MARTIN
Martin Lenclos is a Paris-born, Brooklyn-based artist, designer, and philosophical observer with decades of experience at the intersection of media, innovation, and creative inquiry.
He founded L’Enclos as a platform to unite art, design, and consciousness studies into a single experiment: What happens when we live as if consciousness comes first?
His work bridges media arts, experiential design, and contemplative practice, producing objects, images, and ideas that function less as statements than as questions — mirrors that invite shifts in perception and dissolutions of identity.
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