Review by Cheri Long.

Once in a long decade or two, an artist emerges with something to say which we need to hear at this very moment.  He speaks to our grappling for understanding of the world; he nudges our emotions and awakens the ability to question, to seek the great “aha” in the midst of whirling confusion. Roland Salazar Rose is such an artist: he has become a soul painter.

In his latest book, “The Chaos Trilogy,” he presents three series of his paintings whose themes have emerged from, and relate to Chaos Theory as defined by Edward N. Lorenz, whom Rose quotes:  “A butterfly, flapping its wings in Hong Kong, may change the tornado pattern in Texas.” Maestro Salazar’s works cause us to see with microscopic precision, but also through the scopes of satellites. He combines all of his many resources in this series. He describes in his dead-on observant prose not only the theoretical foundations of this collective work, but also the methods and materials, which relate directly to the subject matter.  One has hardly encountered such an integrated body of work—the themes relate to the compositions and subjects; the materials themselves relate to the very heart of Mexico and her environmental health and ills.  Our world is rendered; it is described; it is revealed in ways, which one cannot speak of.  The wings of Salazar’s butterfly strokes change the tornado patterns of our souls. This is art at its peak of mastery.