Driven by a desire to understand the constituents of the world in which we are from, what we think we know and what is unknown to us, the work of Mel Arsenault develops hybrid objects and stagings that offer a plurality of such interpretations. She is interested in the formal and biological links that weave our understanding of reality in a constantly changing world. Her approach is materialized by the creation of a body of work where her visual language and the subjects explored are free to take different avenues. The manipulation of clay and the observation of the behavior of matter remains central, where the work arises from a close relationship between the illusion of control and the unexpected.