Manifesto
Wash over me
Like the water does Venus
Icarus to the sun
Those waxen wings
Or illusion, his—
Sister to the
Mark
The metal
Pressing into the pale
Of the flesh
To protect
And band
A thread to tie
Generations and
Memory and
Ancestors
And, and
And
We press on.
The moon and the mystic
Of art and life
Myth from mundane
A personal scape
Dreaming into
The bronze cast
Fire
Founded in deep
Reverence
A sheath for the self
From the self
A veil, an heirloom
Devoted to
The shadow of our souls
Out in the sun
A portal to ground
Anchor into
A different state
For all the world to love.
A talisman for the traveller
The lover
The poet
A record
A moment
A memory
Calling out from
Coming down from
The cosmos
The ether
Ever ethereal
All in art
Form
To experience unto
Itself
Yours.
By hands for the heart
To remember.
Ideology
Elena Elias is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweller exploring the notions of connection, culture, and internal landscapes through her art practice.
Her work is mostly expressed through the mediums of handmade jewellery and ink artworks which serve as physical embodiments of stories. Drawing on personal and ancient mythology, archetypes, and poetry, these expressions of her rich artistic landscape are unearthed as physical incarnations of shared human rhythms, and the individual stories that separate them.
Process
JEWELS:
Elena’s Jewellery is hand sculpted using an ancient lost wax method.
The works are made with the intention of becoming family heirlooms or talismans for those with a deep sense of reverence for the handmade. There is a humbled appreciation for not only the history of each piece but also for the gestures or mark making that tells the story of its formation and guides the way in which the wearer will interact with it.
ART:
Elena’s artworks are transportive and submergent: illustrated in her studio from sourced and foraged natural materials they provide an alternative sanctuary from the digital image that often consumes this time.
Like her jewels, her art aims to constantly open the doorways between our physical reality and one that hovers close by, both here and elsewhere, it is at once strange and familiar, constant, and ancient.
Practice
“Jewellery that is truly special, like art, is transportive; a visual cue that becomes a portal, allowing the
wearer to exist both here and in a dreamlike plane of existence through the forms of metals and precious stones.”
