Artefacto - The surrealism of Saul Rojas

There is a young man who has barely broken into his second decade of life on this planet. Medium height, medium build and if you passed him on the street or at the mall, you'd never give him a second glance. He's just a young dude struggling along with life as many of us are. However, unknown to all but a few people, Saul Rojas is a living, human container teeming with with artistic creativity.

Saul is just another face behind a box at the warehouse where we work and few people know that he has lightning embedded in his fingertips and a sack of creativity in his brain. After a stint at the local college art classes, Saul has garnered a prestigious acceptance to the Art Institute of Chicago where he aspires to finish his studies and go on to change the world one brush stroke at a time.

I've seen some of Saul's artwork. It's any mixture of pen, pencil, paint, or pixels in a Photoshop graphic. It's different. It's unique. I can only wonder what was going through his mind as the images appeared on canvas or on the screen. I don't claim to be an art critic, but I know what I like. It takes a knack, I guess, to get some meaning out of a rendering. More than that to put meaning into one.

Saul may be just another struggling artist, but I thought I'd give him a little exposure with an article on this website. In the near future I may not see him anymore as he makes his way to Chicago to further hone his talents. I'd like to show some of his artwork right here so that the readers can see what the surrealism of Saul Rojas is. Whatever you may think about art or drawings from beyond the Ort Cloud, hold out a ray of hope for this young lad. He deserves it.