American Space

American Space is a Science Fiction comedy based on real people I've known projected into a fantasy world.

Foam Peanut Art

This piece was made from scraps of pink foam left from a dinosaur puzzle and pink foam peanuts.

Water Art

Both pieces of art were made by spraying foam into water and then painting when dry.

Carving a T-Rex Hip Bone

Using both a serrated blade and a hot wire cutter, I'm determined to get my three dinosaur puzzles done by the end of Aug. 2007.

An Alien Plant

Because I can always create more art than I have room for, I often bash abstract sculptures together. This alien plant is two such sculptures joined together.

A Robot Head

Here you see me working on the head of a robot costume. Robots are still another Imagination Zone of The Inflatable Studio.

Alien Puppet Head

Another Imagination Zone for The Inflatable Studio is alien life. I really need to build a body for this puppet head.

Freindship

This sculpture is being rebuilt in both the real world and spiritual world. The friend that built this with me has done me a great wrong. As I rebuild this sculpture I'll work at forgiving him.

Saw All Cut

I laid the entrance over to cut the base.

Cut as Marked

I'm jumping around in the construction process. Before the Garden Party at the Art Farm I thought about making the entrance shorter but I was afraid I wouldn't have time to fix it if I made the entrance structurally unsound.

Saddle Tree

Through the entrance of The Inflatable Studio you can see the tree that the arch of the door came from. As a kid I called the tree "The Saddle Tree" as the arch of the door was a limb that reach 20 feet out from the trunk. When this archway was a living part of the tree it was inverted as it appears now. You could ride the limb like a hobby horse. Three generations of Vollrath's climbed the tree and played on the limb. I'm going to be a grandfather twice over this year so in a way I've preserved it for another generation. The limb was cut down for safety concerns.

Arch Detail

The hollow tree limb that makes the arch of the entrance is seen here after I filled it with foam insulation.

Green Entrance

At the Holden Art Farm I began to paint the entrance all different colors.
When I got back home that decision seemed wrong and I began to paint the entrance green.

Organic Construction

Seen here is the left fan wall under construction. I force myself to work on the entrance or the inflatable bag every day.

Tiny T-Rex Brain

I'm painting the T-Rex brain with some lite gray paint. Note the spinal cord coiled in font of the gizzard and the red-orange esophagus coming out of the pink-green gizzard.

T-Rex Gizzard

In this picture you can see me painting the T-Rex gizzard. On the table can be seen the heart and two kidneys.

Wheel Mounts

Here I'm doing one of the many boring but necessary jobs to move The Inflatable Studio forward.
The wheel mounts off a old lawnmower are seen here being savaged to make the entrance mobile and save my back in the future.

Glass Eye for a Dinosaur

What started out as a cardboard egg has turned into a dinosaur head.
When a puppeteer I know was cleaning out his childhood home getting it ready to be sold, this modified paper egg was going to the trash bin. I added all the detail and the glass eyes.
I'm turning what was trash into the beginning of a fine art sculpture of a reclining dinosaur.

T-Rex Bones

Seen here are two views of Brook the T-Rex under construction.

A Dinosaur at Rest

A thumbnail sketch of a young dinosaur. Today I begin to sculpt my first attempt at dinosaur fine art.