Margaret LeJeune

Two Trees Marigram

Digital photography collage

"Thirteen Hours to Fall examines the climate crisis through investigations of contemporary and future littoral zones. This multi-media work includes large-format color photographs, collage work, video, soundscapes, and salted paper prints created with water collected at the site of a ghost forest on the eastern shore of the United States. These works ask the viewer to bear witness to the complex history of this landscape altered by the timber industry, plantation farming practices, and climate change over time. This interdisciplinary and intersectional project draws from environmental history, geography, and maritime traditions including mapping and wayfinding in an effort to define our relationship to this rapidly changing landscape."

–Margaret LeJeune

About the artist

Margaret LeJeune

Margaret LeJeune is an image-maker, curator, and educator from Rochester, New York (USA). She received an MFA from Visual Studies Workshop. Working predominantly with photographic-based mediums, LeJeune explores our precarious relationship to the natural world.

Her work has been widely exhibited at institutions including The Griffin Museum of Photography (USA), The Center for Fine Art Photography (USA), ARC Gallery (USA), Circe Gallery Cape Town (South Africa), Science Cabin (South Korea), and Umbrella Arts (USA). LeJeune has been invited to create work at several residency programs which foster collaboration between the arts and sciences including the Global Nomadic Art Project - The Ephemeral River (England), University of Notre Dame Research Center (USA), D'art et de Reves (Canada), and THe Hambidge Center (USA).

LeJeune has been awarded a Puffin Fellowship, The Sally A. Williams Artist Grant, and a Bradley University Research Excellence "New Directions" Grant for her interdisciplinary project Growing Light. Her work has been been published in Culture, Community, and Climate: Conversations and Emergent Praxis (art.earth), Evolving The Forest (art.earth) and Embodied Forest (ecoartspace).