Elsa Salonen

Spirit Collections (Yellow Delphinium)

a decoloured alpine delphinium and its distilled colour pigments, preservative fluid, isomalt, glass, metal

2024, 107×10×10 cm

The artist extracted colours from an alpine delphinium, leaving it pale and colourless. The distilled colour pigments were then conserved in transparent isomalt and displayed in a laboratory glass vessel alongside the now-white plant preserved in fluid.

𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 is named after botanical collections.

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Detail photo: Joe Clark, 2024
Exhibition views: Ama Gallery, Helsinki, 2024