Richard Dupont’s work consistently explores the relationship between perception, embodiment, and systems of representation. Whether examining the human body through advanced imaging technologies or engaging the landscape through gesture and abstraction, his work investigates what lies beneath visible appearance.
The cyanotypes After Santiago Ramón y Cajal originate from full-body scans Dupont underwent in 2004 at General Dynamics on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Using laser-cut woodblocks derived from these scans, Dupont transforms technologies of measurement and surveillance into deeply personal images. The series pays homage to the pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, whose drawings and investigations of the nervous system helped establish the foundations of modern neuroscience. Here, the body becomes both subject and map, revealing hidden structures that shape perception and identity.
In Idalia, a series of monoprints produced in response to the devastating hurricane that passed through Florida, Dupont turns his attention outward toward the forces of nature. The works transform the experience of weather, uncertainty, and vulnerability into meditations on the sublime. Rather than depicting the storm directly, the prints evoke the psychological and physical experience of navigating overwhelming forces beyond human control.
Together, these bodies of work reflect Dupont’s enduring interest in the unseen: the hidden architectures of the body, the mind, and the natural world. Whether through technology or landscape, his work asks how we locate ourselves within systems that are simultaneously intimate, vast, and unknowable.