E-Art Books

E-Art Books

Artists have a voice, yet they often refrain from expressing how their art was created: what it meant to them in the doing. They say: “I do the images, it’s up to you to express what it means to you.” But this, while possibly  true years ago, now ignores that this is an age when communication using both sides of the brain is more advantageous to the modern artist, and more and more the Internet and all electronic ways of communicating art has become normal. In 2006 I chose to document and discuss my twenty-year painting residency in Mexico. I self-published e-books, and called these e-art books to distinguish them from other e-books. I made these available on my website and distributed these by reliable e-book sites.

When you download a title e-art book you have agreed:  “You may make copies of my e-art book(s) for your own use on your computer or device. You may not pass copies of the e-art book(s) on to anyone else. You agree to abide to our Privacy Policy. You have read the End-User Warranty and License Agreement.”  The download of any and all of the chapters in the e-art books distributed by Ramblin/rose Publications grants you a non-exclusive, nontransferable license to use the e-art book(s) according to the terms and conditions of the End-User Warranty and License Agreement.


Words and Images: Salazar

This e-art book shows work I did in Mexico (My Mexican Years) from 1987 to 2011.Included in this e-pub are the images and text in the nine e-books shown below. This e-pub is 84MB. With 193 pages, this e-pub will be read by someone who has already some knowledge of my art and has an appreciation and interest in learning more how my work has developed, over-time; and my dedication to the creation of work that is artistically worthy of consideration for its strength and artistic value today.

You may contact my dealer in Mexico with respect to any of the art displayed or me directly in the U.S.
I apologize to the reader of this e-pub for any errors that I have made in publishing this electronic version; it’s too tedious to correct this e-pub, since it was developed using old software, and graphics that are no longer in fashion.

Your comments on this e-pub,  please contact the author.

Words and Images: Salazar: All Rights Reserved copyright 2010 Roland Salazar Rose


If Only…

If Only is a collaboration of image and poem, between Salazar and poet Bill Pearlman. Pat MacEnulity, Ph.D., wrote, “Salazar’s paintings are stirring and original. Pearlman’s verses are the perfect complements to the images. Pearlman, the poet, captures some small suggestion in each of Salazar’s richly painted pictures and develops it into a succinct, musical quatrain that somehow evokes the feeling of the picture and yet allows the viewer his or her own experience.”

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Mexican Secrets

Mexican Secrets combines the painting series Estrangement by Salazar and the collaboration with poet Pearlman in Once Again…Alone. It’s more like a confessional on Salazar’s estranged relationship with his spouse, and the turbulence of that period, that result in a divorce.

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Aztec Deities

Aztec Deities attempts in “words & images” to engage the reader in more literary searches for answers to the rise and fall of the Aztec empire (1427-1521). How the conquistador Cortéz with about 1,000 troops, horses, crude weaponry, and typical armor, with great acumen conquered the vast Aztec land and extended empire and devastated their civilization. The history of the period is broadly outlined in the book. Images represent a “gringo” contemporary artist’s creative exploration and representation of the period.

ERATUM: Unfortunately an error in the original publication is found in this e-book and I can’t make a suitable correction  in this digital publication. The text as written describing Cortes march should be in quotation marks, and the name of the author respectfully recognized. Due to the digital publication software used in 2007 I can’t make a proper correction, and I can’t republish since the software is outdated. My sincere apologize to the author, and my hope that the author will accept my statement here.

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Chapapote: a Mexican Elixir

Chapapote: a Mexican Elixir expostulates on how the misuse of oil has been harmful to the environment. Salazar found a way to successfully take chapapote (tar) found in Mexico and effectively use it in his paintings. He has created a distinct body of work in Mexico according to Guillermo Zajarias, CEO Aura Galeria, México, D.F. An environmentalist, Rose tells the story how the sinking of the tanker Prestige (some unattended irony in that name) off the Galician coast of Spain and the disaster that was wrought on the fishing and coastline there. Fishermen in Spain came to use the word “chapapote” as a sort of curse work to express their anger with the mishandling of the incident and the damage to their way of life.

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Mexican Vibrations: Vibraciones Méxicans

The images, while heralding the Mexican landscape, nevertheless do not single it out. Instead the Mexican Vibrations series is a totally new way to examine Mexico, the land, and its people. It is as Carlos Fuentes said in his Introduction to the photography journal, Mexico: A HigherVision: “Everything in Mexico vibrates simultaneously, perhaps because the clouds constantly soften the harshness of the imperious Mexican elements, so none truly triumphs over the other.”

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Twenty: A Magical Number

Twenty: A Magical Number with “Tonalpohalli: The Count of Fate & the Convergence” series of paintings explores Aztec mythology. Twenty is a “magical number” in Mexican mythology, important to many Central American cultures. In the Náhuatl language twenty is the number of fingers and toes on a human being and is descriptive of a whole person.

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The Chaos Trilogy

Cheri Long, freelance writer and book editor, in a review of The Chaos Trilogy, states: “[It] 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 it’s 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. The wings of Rose’s butterfly strokes change the tornado pattern of our souls”

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Compelling Visions: 52 A Sacred Number

Compelling Visions: 52 A Sacred Number “Goddess Mother Earth in Green & Brown” and “Compelling Visions: ‘98” shown in this book are both due to a “compelling,” need on his part to provide public scrutiny, comment, and hopeful appreciation for his creative process and “how” he states: “I for one, and surely you, need to relate what we are about and how we feel.”

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San Miguel de Allende: a Magical Place

Salazar’s most recent publication San Miguel de Allende: a Magical Place tours his home there, 1989-2009; introducing for this first time, his most recent painting series, “Landscape in Action.” The e-art book is dedicated to the library, the Biblioteca Públic, its staff and volunteers. This well-known artist tourist town was voted in 2008 a United Nations World Heritage City. Foreword by Lulu Torbet: with poems by Bill Pearlman.

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Want to get this e-artbook,  free to read? Send me an e-mail & in the subject Line insert “Requesting e-book (Name e-book title): I will send you a PDF file that will let you read the e-book: For my e-mail address, see this Link: