*Robin Williams describes Roller as Hieronymus Bosch meets P.T Barnum, Faulkner meets Dr. Seuss, and Leakey meets Freud. However you seek to describe him, the whimsies, allegory, fantasy, imagery, and metaphysics add up to a fascinating visual philosophy. “The more you seek to know the answers, the more you realize how much you don't know,” Roller says. “As a result, you have to operate blindly on faith. Even though you’re becoming conscious of the fact that you’ re so small and ignorant, it's kind of comforting to know that you can just go ahead and be small. It gives things a perspective. You might as well just relax and let it happen - there is such a thing as destiny.”

“That doesn't mean you can't elevate yourself in every way, and it's terribly exciting to do that. But at the same time, there's a kind of pointlessness about it. More than anything, my work deals with that pointlessness. It takes all the arrogance out of everything you do when you know that God is so much bigger than you are. And yet everything you are and do and see is filled with God: the trees, the asphalt, the people fighting over Aqua Net at Wal-Mart. That sounds silly, but silliness is just as important as love, just as important as tragedy. You can make a profound intellectual statement just by basing your efforts on silliness.”

Roller Wilson's recognizable works hang in the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; Whitney Museum, New York, New York; Bank of America, San Francisco, CA; and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

To view more of Donald Roller Wilson's work, visit his website (http://www.donaldrollerwilson.com/)