About Carol Morotti
Carol Morotti creates sculptural still lifes from organic materials in transition-seed pods, petals, feathers, curled leaves, the delicate remnants of the living world. Each piece is composed by hand and captured in a single moment of light, preserving what is fleeting, fractured, or forgotten.
Rooted in the vanitas tradition of the Dutch Masters, her work speaks to impermanence but also to reverence. In these images, death is never final; it is simply another movement in the cycle of life.
These compositions are physically built, not digitally; the forms themselves exist as they are arranged. Each still life is composed in the studio using natural fragments, then photographed at the moment of completion. The materials are then returned to the earth, or saved for future use.
Carol holds a degree in architecture and has spent over 30 years practicing architectural design alongside her work as a two-dimensional artist. Her paintings, often sculptural in nature, featured elemental forms suspended in fields of color — early echoes of the spatial awareness that now shapes her sculptural still lifes. Through every stage of her creative life, she has drawn from the rhythms and teachings of the natural world.