Elena Rousseau

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Torch I

Canvas, gesso, 17th century Italian giltwood fragment, green earth, sand, graphite, wax, raw opals and oil on board
32”H x 24”W x 6”D
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Torch II

Canvas, gesso, Italian 17th century Florence flood fragment, fresco plaster and oil on board
34”H x 24”W x 8”D
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Torch III

Canvas, gesso, Italian 17th century Florence flood fragment, fresco plaster, green earth, ash and 24KT shell gold on board
30”H x 12”W x 6”D
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Torch IV

Canvas, gesso, Italian 17th century Florence flood fragment, fresco plaster, green earth, ash and 24KT shell gold on board
30”H x 12”W x 6”D
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Torch V

Canvas, gesso, Italian 17th century Florence flood fragment, fresco plaster, green earth, ash and 24KT shell gold on board
30”H x 12”W x 6”D
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Torch VI

Canvas, gesso, Italian 17th century Florence flood fragment, fresco plaster, green earth, ash and 24KT shell gold on board
30”H x 12”W x 6”D
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Icon I

Canvas, gesso, marble paste, Italian giltwood fragment, green earth, ash, wax, raw sapphires, 24KT gold leaf and oil on board
24”H x 48”W x 8”D
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Icon II

Canvas, gesso, marble paste, Italian giltwood fragment, Italian raw sienna, green earth, ash, wax and 24KT gold leaf on board
12”H x 30”W x 6”D
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Icon III

Canvas, gesso, marble paste, Italian giltwood fragment, Italian raw sienna, green earth, ash, wax and 24KT gold leaf on board
12”H x 30”W x 6”D
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Icon IV

Canvas, gesso, wax, 24KT gold leaf and oil on board 
24”H x 48”W x 6”D
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Icon V

Canvas, gesso, marble paste, Italian giltwood fragment, Italian raw sienna, green earth, ash, wax and 24KT gold leaf on board
36”H x 72”W x 12”D
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Icon VI

Canvas, gesso, marble paste, Italian dark sienna, green earth, ash, wax, 24KT gold leaf and acrylic on board
36”H x 72”W x 8”D
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The Florence Room, my studio, is a room dedicated to bringing spirit and matter together through the discipline of artistic endeavor and for the sake of pursuing an emergence of beauty that is as diverse and marvelous as each of us. My studio is a chapel of the arts, a space set apart for the creative process which often feels to me like the mixing of worlds. The Florence Room is where I live in that overlap of heaven and earth, where I write poetry, grind mineral pigments into pastes, mix marble plaster for use in fresco paintings, sculpt canvas with gesso, and embellish Italian giltwood artifacts with gold leaf, gems, and minerals. My artistic practice is a constant exercise in freedom, in which tight precision and unapologetic spontaneity bow to one another in turn. It is not uncommon for me to unmake things as often as I make them. This ritual of adding/removing, making/breaking, building/deconstructing is a reenactment of the passage of time and of what it means to be human, I think— excavating life for our truest selves, learning the art of transfiguration as we go, and bringing the world with us toward a unity that grows vast instead of diminishing. Welcome, all.

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