{"title":"Roots","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome roots run deep into the earth of a specific place.  Others run through the blood - inherited before they are understood, carried before they are named.  Roots is both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis series begins where identity begins - not with a single origin but with the layered, complex, sometimes contradictory rootedness of a life shaped by more than one world.  The Louisiana Creole heritage that lives in the blood - French, African, Caribbean, American South - its language, its light, its particular way of holding both joy and sorrow in the same breath.  And the streets of Berkeley, California, where that inherited identity met a city of its own complexity - intellectual, activist, multicultural, restless - and was shaped by it in ways that took decades to fully understand. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese paintings do not document those worlds. They express how they felt.  The quality of light remembered rather than photographed.  The emotional wealth of belonging and not belonging simultaneously.  The texture of ta culture carried in the body before it is carried in the mind.  The specific feeling of growing up at the intersection of ancestral heritage and lived American experience - neither fully one thing nor the other, and richer for it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoots is painted from that intersection.  From the bayou and the Bay.  From the French tongue and the California sun.  From everything that was inherited and everything that was lived, held together in color, texture, and form the way roots hold soil - not by force, but by nature.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"racines-brume","title":"Brume","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrume\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(French: \"mist\" \/ \" sea haze\")\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLatex, texture spray paint, and copper spray paint on canvas - 24 x 30 in.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a particular moment at the coast when the sun is low, and the mist hasn't lifted - when the light turns copper, and the water goes still, and the horizon becomes something you feel more than see.  That moment doesn't last.  But it stays with you.  Brume is that moment, held.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe upper field builds itself in layers of copper spray - warm, atmospheric, cloud-formed -  the exact quality of late afternoon coastal light filtering through se mist.  It doesn't sit flat.  It shifts and accumulates the way weather does, the way memory of a place does, luminous in some areas and soft in others.  Below it, a deep expresso ground holds the stillness of water at dusk - dark, calm, not yet night. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween them, a single unbroken line.  The horizon.  The place where the copper sky meets the quiet sea, and neither one wins.  Just the meeting.  Just the light on the mist and the mist on the water and the particular peace of standing at the edje of something vast and feeling, for once, completely still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrume doesn't recreate the coast.  It recreates the feeling of being there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiving with Brume\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrume brings the stillness of a coastal evening into any interior space.  Its warm copper upper field responds to changing light throughout the day - glowing amber in morning light, softening to silver in the afternoon - making it a canvas that is never quite the same twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts horizontal orientation and muted palette make it deeply versatile: a bedroom where the day needs to slow down, a living room that opens to natural light, a dining space that benefits from warmth and colm.  It pairs naturally with warm whites, soft linen, driftwood tones, aged brass, and matte black or natural wood frames.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs part of the Racines series, Brume carries the quiet depth of work rooted in personal heritage and lived experience.  It is the kind of piece that collectors return to - one that gives something different depending on the hour, the season, and the mood of the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a piece for those who know what it feels like to stand at the water's edge and not want to leave.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcquire \u003cstrong\u003eBrume\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrume \u003c\/em\u003eis an original, one -of-a-kind work from the Racines series by Joseph Fleury.  available now.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Fleury Artworks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46492380070085,"sku":null,"price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/2964\/2181\/files\/Brume.jpg?v=1783204911"},{"product_id":"the-second-line","title":"The Second Line","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLa Deuxieme Ligne\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e( French \/ Louisiana Creole: \" The Second Line\")  \/  pronounced; 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