Mathilde Grant, working as M3th1ld3, is a Washington, DC–based digital artist whose work explores time, memory, natural cycles, and the traces people leave behind. Drawing on a background in art history, systems thinking, and digital culture, she creates photographic and generative works that move between the organic and the technological.

Her work includes studies of gardens, seasonal public spaces, lunar cycles, and imagined botanical forms, often using repetition and seriality to reveal patterns that become visible over time. Grant studied Postwar and Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and holds an MA from the University of St Andrews. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Washington, DC, and the greater Mid-Atlantic region.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I make artifacts about time.

Sometimes time appears explicitly in my work: the movement of the Moon through its 28 Mansions, a generative artwork changing over 24 hours, or an image connected to a particular moment through digital technology. Elsewhere it is quieter: plants emerging and disappearing in a garden, leaves collecting in a swimming pool at the end of August, or evidence that someone occupied a place moments before.

I am interested in repetition, cycles, emergence, and disappearance. I often work in series because meaning accumulates between images. A single photograph can describe a moment; a sequence begins to reveal a system.

My practice moves between photography, digital art, generative processes, and emerging technologies. Although the tools are contemporary, many of the questions are ancient: how we mark time, how we understand change, and what we choose to preserve.

The works function as temporal artifacts—records of things that are present now, already changing, and eventually gone.