Sunset Serenade: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2025)
Mixed-media installation — aluminum dibond, vinyl, and ink
Dimensions: 32’ 9 ½” x 6’-10”
Miami-Dade Public Art Collection
Morel Doucet (b. 1990, Pilate, Haiti) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores climate gentrification, displacement, and Black diasporic identity. In Sunset Serenade: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, Doucet reflects on the fragility of coastal ecosystems and the quiet erasures brought by climate change. Through layered natural and fabricated materials, the piece captures both ecological grief and ancestral memory, asking viewers to consider what endures—and what fades—when landscapes transform.
This work continues Morel Doucet’s legacy of using art as an archive of ecological memory and cultural survival. Rooted in the Black diasporic experience, Sunset Serenade: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape expands his practice of bearing witness to climate change, displacement, and the fragile beauty of endangered landscapes.
Night Garden: In Moonlight the Stars Chatter
Medium: Acrylic on wooden panel (mylar, aerosol paint, sand, metal, indigenous flora)
Dimensions: 30" x 40"
Year: 2023
Photography by Pedro Wazzan
Sunset Serenade: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape explores the fragility of coastal ecosystems and the cultural memories tied to them. Morel Doucet weaves together themes of ecological loss, climate gentrification, and ancestral resilience—inviting viewers to reflect on what is preserved, and what disappears, when landscapes are transformed by time and environmental change.
Night Garden: God Was Not The Author Of Confusion And Despair
Medium: Mixed media on wooden panel (Aerosol paint, metal, and Indigenous Flora)
Dimensions: 36” x 60”
Year: 2023
Photography by Pedro Wazzan
This project confronts the politics of land, belonging, and climate gentrification. Through its layered imagery, Morel Doucet reveals how rising seas and redevelopment reshape not only ecosystems but also the lives and futures of Black and immigrant communities on contested ground.
Liberty Blue (Big Mamma House)
Medium: Slip-cast porcelain ceramics
Dimensions: 24” x 36”
Year: 2023
Photography by Pedro Wazzan