Rick Araluce

These works are mixed media constructions. That means I fabricate virtually everything in them from scratch, including the boxes that contain the works. I’ve spent years devising methods to create a tiny light bulb, telephone handset, turned table leg, elaborate trim molding--whatever is required to complete the illusion. Wont tell you how, though. One day I will be adding functioning elements. Imagine a tiny fan blowing a tiny door on its hinges while a tiny TV plays video that I’ve created--you get the picture. Working on it.

Most Recent Works

There’s a liberal dose of absurdity in some of these pieces, I admit. A pile of heavy books balancing on a pencil point; an over-engineered trapdoor device that cannot work; a coffin that is floating just above a candle wick . And as well, some poetry. The teensy sea shells in The Last Egret are from Sanibel Island, so, no, I didn’t make those.The telephone in The Impossibility of Sound is about 4.5 inches long. Oh, here’s something: I’m working on a proposal that will have 20 of these little phones hanging in a cluster from a gallery ceiling, each with a person’s voice that is describing a vivid dream, emanating from the speaker. You’ll walk in their midst, into a tiny collage of overlapping voices. You know that’s cool, right? Right. Stay tuned.