Elsa Salonen

Spirit Collections

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

2024–2025, various dimensions

The artist extracted colours from flowers, leaving them pale and colourless. The distilled colour pigments were then conserved in transparent isomalt and displayed in laboratory glass vessels alongside the now-white plants preserved in fluid.

Spirit Collections is named after botanical collections.

Thanks:
Artwork photos: Joe Clark, 2024, 2025
Exhibition photos: Ama Gallery, Helsinki (FI), 2024

Spirit Collections (Red Rose I)
a decoloured rose and its distilled colour pigments, preservative fluid, isomalt, glass, metal

2025, 57×30×10 cm
Spirit Collections (Red Rose I)
a decoloured rose and its distilled colour pigments, preservative fluid, isomalt, glass, metal

2025, 57×30×10 cm
Spirit Collections (Yellow Delphinium)
a decoloured alpine delphinium and its distilled colour pigments, preservative fluid, isomalt, glass, metal

2024, 107×33×12 cm
Spirit Collections (Yellow Delphinium)
a decoloured alpine delphinium and its distilled colour pigments, preservative fluid, isomalt, glass, metal

2024, 107×33×12 cm