Elisa Jensen shares the backstory on the work currently on view in her show Street Lines at The Painting Center, New York, through November 23, 2014.

Jensen notes: "My painting is rooted in a place—Brooklyn, at the moment—but as a general matter I am not a faithful copyist of the everyday… And speaking of combining the ancient and the modern, I see a tremendous connection between what’s happening on the corner of Nassau and Manhattan Avenue and The Book of Kells, the Lindesfarne Gospels, and the Book of Durrow."