Elsa Salonen: Study of Eternal Cycle

Completion year: 2014

Technique: bleached rose and its distilled colours, glass, metal, light

Size: muuttuvat mitat

The artist distilled the colours from the petals and leaves of a red rose. After this, the very same flower was bleached. Using only the strong red pigments of the petals and the weaker, yellowish pigments of the leaves, the artist painted three rounded laboratory glasses. In the exhibition space, a spotlight illuminates the painted glasses. In this way, the colours are reflected back to the bleached rose, which again appears vivid and red.

In the circle of life, the vital energy doesn't perish, but continues its course eternally.

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