Morel Doucet - Avalon Hotel
To Bloom Under the Midnight Stars unfolds as a nocturnal meditation on resilience, transformation and belonging. Inspired by South Florida’s lush ecosystems, native and cultivated flora emerge from deep fields of color, illuminated as if by moonlight. Suspended between the observed and the imagined, the landscape becomes a living archive—holding traces of migration, cultural memory and environmental change. Here, beauty is neither passive nor untouched; it persists through uncertainty, adapting and taking root in new terrain. Through heightened color and scale, the work invites viewers to pause within this dreamlike ecology and consider the fragile bonds connecting land, history and community. Even beneath the weight of darkness, life reaches outward, insisting on its right to bloom.
Morel Doucet is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts educator whose practice spans ceramics, sculpture, printmaking and public art. Drawing from Afro-Caribbean histories, migration, climate change and South Florida’s ecology, he creates richly layered works that explore identity, memory, resilience and environmental loss. Doucet earned his BFA in Ceramics from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work is held in the collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Microsoft, Meta, Royal Caribbean, the Petrucci Family Foundation and the Chitra Collection in the United Kingdom. He is a recipient of the 2024 Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Award and a 2025 Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award. Through his studio and public art practice, Doucet centers Black and diasporic narratives while inviting reflection on the cultural and ecological forces shaping contemporary life.
