Elisa Glugosh is an interdisciplinary artist, this term she has been
experimenting with scents, natural dyes/materials, installation, form and play.

Her goal is to create a room, specifically a dream room that references
specific nostalgic emotions with an eerie or unsettling feeling for the viewer.
Bringing the character she creates in her sketchbook into the three
dimensional world. Moving from paintings, to paintings on forms, to the
works being the forms itself. Found cotton sheets, black walnuts, and
avocado pits are the main materials used for the soft sculptural beings. The
paintings are made using bees wax and oil paint, characters painted on
created wood forms and unstretched canvas, as well as an enlarged black
walnut shell casted with peppermint oil, soy and beeswax. The black walnut
is an important motif in this body of work, the black walnut in its folklore is a
symbol of magic and wisdom. For Elisa it is a symbol of childhood curiosity.
The act of collecting and imagining a fantastical world for yourself. This is
why every piece of black walnut is included in every piece in some shape or
form. Whether it be ink, dye, the shell or a cast of the shell, the presence is
there. Additionally, installation is important, each piece is in need of the other

to communicate the melancholically familiar feeling. The natural dye is
important in creating these works as the practice of foraging, freezing and
dying is an act of play. For Elisa these actions are very nostalgic. The
naturally dyed soft sculptures are like her children, carefully built up to the
being they are now. The residue of the natural material is a history of the
specific materials collected in the process.