ROULIER'S RUSTY RELIQUES

DOING A LITTLE MEMORIAL DAY PAINTING

Doing a little Memorial Day Weekend painting. Got this kinda cool color but best taken in small doses.....it's that cool. The ceilings are next....they aren't going to be white.

GETTING A HEAD

Working on this little piece, trying to get a head......lol.

RAIN RAIN GO AWAY COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY

I actually saw the sky this morning it's gone again but I saw it so I know it's there.....It has rained/snowed every day for a couple of weeks when we get fog here and lots of humidity we have very cool cloud formations. They seem to sink right into the mountains, really quite stunning. When the sun peeked out for a few minutes I bolted for my camera. The deck was covered with a thin layer of ice so it got cold last night!

KATZ

Just finished this little assemblage. I took apart another one that I have never liked for several reasons, one reason was I did it right after my hand surgery, in a full arm cast and on some pretty sweet drugs, but that was a difficult recovery and pretty painful. So needless to say I did not want or need any reminders of that particular time. In addition it was one that I just didn't like, sometimes you have work you just 
don't like.

 

TINY TIN

Just used up my last tin on this little piece.

HYBRID BABIES

Another part of the installation for the show was the area where these hybrid babies are displayed. I wanted to emphasize the urban decay aspect of this installation so I used the old drums and stark environment to build it. Yet these babies sit on beds of glass which contrast the rusty drums with the slick ceramic babies adding an eerie effect. Of course the leafless dead tree branch with crystals hanging from it enhances the environment, the windows make you wonder if they are inside or outside.

INSTALLATION DETAILS

Just a few details of my installation from my show, which by the way, if you haven't seen it and are in Denver swing in and check it out at Core New Art Space. Unless, you are a big fan of landscapes then probably don't bother. The first picture is JarJar (a little pet name) who is the last pure thing in some universe or time period. He's got a couple of trees which can't be seen well growing under the pressure gauge of his head and is mounted on a tilling blade. Subtle eye chart gives something for the eye between the wall piece and the next part of the install.

The next piece is an old organ or player piano skeleton which serves as a nice representation of our urban world, mounted on it are two very nice Fiat horns, three oil cans are mounted on the piano skeleton along with a carved wooden angel. Tubing runs from JarJar down the wall and behind the piano. All of this sits on two old bricks and two old ledgers from the stock yard.

The tubing acts as both a transition and a disguise for the light tube running behind. The light is a little too subtle but it's purpose is to light up the area under JarJar's head and cast shadows. The final part of the installation is is a large glass floor piece with bones that I gathered from my friend the mountain who leaves all sorts of things scattered behind my house. This is either the final resting point or the place where it all starts. There is a pile of rock salt where the tubes are attached. Salt is an interesting substance that has a number of creepy old myths built up around it. One being that it drives away evil and sterilizes. I used the glass because of the jarring contrast between the clean shiny glass and the old bones.

BA-ABIES ON DRU-UMS

Six ba-abies sitting on on six oil dru-ums. I like that word ba-abies, it almost is an adjective, and well it isn't exactly a word. It's more like a made up word that describes the noun it came from, babies. Maybe it could be better used to describe sheep. Oh well I like it so I'm going to use it. This installation has a large tree branch hanging in it and it was somewhat difficult to hang and make sure it didn't fall. The oil drums are my current favorite pedestals. Under each baby is a blanket of glass which I got from a glass place, stuff they were going to throw out, I just love the way it looks, clean like water or ice and somewhat dangerous......

 

 

 

WHEN PIGS FLY

When this pig flew it was disaster for her.....She got very beat up when coming back from a show that was out of state, but I made modifications and redid the whole thing and now it's almost done. I have a couple more things I'd like to do then she's back better than ever.

 

THE COMMISSION

Just finished this little commission, so easy to do because my subject was just so darn cute........really cute.