It’s not what you are looking at, it’s what you see explores the space between perception and interpretation. The work acknowledges the viewer as an active participant in completing the experience: the paintings offer a visual language, but each person brings their own history, assumptions, and perceptual lens to what unfolds before them. What remains constant is the image itself; what shifts is the meaning each viewer constructs through the act of looking. In this way, seeing becomes less about recognition and more about interpretation.

Drawing from a self-developed combination of painting, hand-printing, stenciling techniques, and brushwork Marcil creates richly layered surfaces of dense networks of dots and lines and shapes that feel both deliberate and spontaneous. Guided by intuition and discovery, geometric patterns repeat and forms emerge, generating rhythmic compositions; often evoking ancient, mystical, or extraterrestrial influences. Patterns appear carefully constructed, yet they retain an intuitive improvisational quality that suggests Marcil is responding in the moment; repetition and material experimentation guide the work forward.

The exhibition title, It's not what you are looking at, it’s what you see, feels particularly fitting. Marcil's paintings do not prescribe a single interpretation. Instead, they invite viewers into a space of contemplation, where meaning arises through personal association and perception. Each encounter becomes its own experience, shaped as much by the viewer's imagination as by the artist's command of pattern, rhythm, and form.