The oil paintings of Alex Roulette are highly detailed and often especially realistic. Still, there is something off, similar to that vague feeling that eventually betrays a dream. Roulette explores subtleties in imagery that reflect memories and even dreams. His paintings are virtually a collection of various images in much the same way a dream is frequently a collage of ideas and memories. He explains his process in his statement saying, “I begin each new work by gathering a large collection of source material. I meticulously photograph environments and collect found images such as vintage postcards. In constructing the painting, I use combinations of these reference images, to fabricate an open-ended narrative with the emotion of a memory.”