Constructing Perception
Justin Morissette is a visual engineer and art director working through digital collage image construction. His practice explores perception as a fragile system, where scale, absence, and contrast reshape what the viewer believes to be real. Through stark black-and-white compositions, fragmented imagery, and controlled visual hierarchy, his work exists between photography and fabrication, inviting the mind to complete what is intentionally left unresolved.
What You See Is Not What Exists
Contemporary image-making is saturated with clarity and excess,
leaving little room for interpretation or ambiguity.
A. Problem
Hyper-real visuals reduce engagement, everything is shown, leaving nothing to question or reconstruct.
B. Insight
The mind seeks completion. What is hidden, distorted, or scaled beyond logic becomes more powerful than what is fully visible.
C. Concept
A visual system built on fragmentation, contrast, and illusion, where meaning is not delivered, but formed through perception.
Perception as Construction
Through stark black-and-white compositions, monumental figures emerge within vast and conflicting environments—partially obscured, fragmented, or censored. A deliberate visual hierarchy guides the eye while subtly disrupting spatial logic. The work transforms perception into an active process, where the viewer instinctively assembles meaning, resulting in images that feel both familiar and unstable—less a fixed statement, more an experience shaped in the mind.
