Rousso's works are described as 21st century Pop Art dealing in ephemera and artifacts of an analog culture that is quickly disappearing into the past.

[8] It was in Cleveland that Rousso's foundation in design, composition and color were established and guided by his instructor Julian Stanczak he learned he wasn't nearly as good as he thought he was.

[9] During Rousso's second year in California he briefly lived in New York City, working for Jan Stanbury on the redesign of Robert De Niro's loft at 110 Hudson Street.

[3] While in Los Angeles, Rousso began photographing and drawing women, which he assembled into a portfolio aimed at the fashion illustration market.

Thinking the market for that kind of work was stronger in New York City than Los Angeles, Rousso moved to Manhattan in 1982 where he was introduced to Geraldine Onorato, who was one of the staff art directors at Bloomingdale's.

One of the more widely seen campaigns during that time was a 1985 Revlon ad featuring Joan Collins with the tagline "Never met a Scoundrel I didn't like", written by Alice Erickson.

[citation needed] In 2005 Rousso was the only artist privately awarded a commission to produce six different pieces of art for the then-new Bobcats Basketball Arena,[10] now known as the Spectrum Center.

In 2009 the artist was commissioned to create the Children's Holocaust Memorial Sculpture at the Levine Jewish Community Center in Charlotte, NC.

[12] The currency piece was originally produced as personal work and Rousso left it to languish on his studio floor for months, until a friend saw it and suggested that if he could hang it on the wall, he might have something.

[citation needed] Beyond currency, Rousso would expand his subject matter to include outsized candy wrappers, newspapers, magazines, cereal boxes and other familiar paper-based objects.

[15] November 1st would be displayed at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan[16] and be noted by the Battle Creek Enquirer as one of the top 12 works on exhibit.

[18] In 2015 the Italian publisher Libri Linea Grafica Duck Edizioni released a book on the artist titled The Art of Flat Depth, written by Tom Patterson.

High-resolution scans of the paper objects, such as currency, candy wrappers, and magazine and newspaper pages are made and then enlarged and retouched in Photoshop.