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Biography:
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Carol Roullard has been an avid photographer since high school, where she first experimented with black-and-white composition. Through the years, Carol has continued to hone her photography skills, focusing mainly on architecture and nature, where she merged her love for photography with her passion for art.
Artist Statement
I’ve always been fascinated by the colors, patterns and textures that occur in nature. Even as a young girl, my goal was to capture nature’s character and strength to make pictures that evoked awe within the viewer. Photography became my chosen medium.
I have expanded my photography to the micro cosmos. Using a high-powered polarization microscope, I discovered an extraordinary, intricate world of dazzling crystals with unique natural structures and patterns. I create intricate micro-crystal arrangements that captivate viewers and stimulate their imagination to interpret an abstract pattern into a familiar scene.
My artistic criterion is to excite reactions of surprise and enchantment. Many of my artworks resemble land and seascapes; others portray animals, feathers, or flowers. Each image is an individual that will never occur again in nature.
I have only found one print medium that adequately displays the crystal’s spirit and essence - aluminum. My fine art photographs are infused onto large sheets of aluminum, which reveals the crystal’s depth and luminosity, much like how I first saw the crystals under the microscope.
As the ambient light changes throughout the day, so do the artwork’s colors. The iridescence and colors within the image transform before the viewer’s eyes by shifting one’s stance slightly. Plus the aluminum substrate gives the image back its depth that I originally saw through the microscope.
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