Caleb Weintraub

Lucy brings the class to Annahannah Valley for show-and-tell but there really isn't much to tell since the show is so impressive , mixed media/canvas, 8" x 8", 2005

For the fourth time this season, little Jimmy has single-handedly put an end to the prospect of   the next great development in Western History , acrylic on canvas with fabric, glitter, beads, fur 8"x8" 2005


Parachuter from the pink 100, mixed media/canvas, 8" x 8", 2005

High Heaven , acrylic on canvas with fabric, glitter, beads, 8"x8" 2005


Mary Had A Missile , acrylic on canvas with gold leaf, fabric, glitter, 8"x8", 2005

Incredibly, after the bullet passed through aunt Bertha's immense gut, it became lodged inside a cantaloupe that was sitting on the dresser waiting to be painted , acrylic on canvas with fabric, glitter, beads, 8"x8", 2005

No one was left alive on these banks, so the children went about the arduous task of executing all the spaces that had been between the people while they were hiding along the edges of the river, acrylic and mixed-media on aluminum , 4"x4" 2006

Bruegal had imagined a tower of Babel and it came into being. Here the infants found that it had been built up higher since last they saw it. They brought back bones --still hot from the lightning bolts -- to prove to their shipmates that Bruegal's head-space was inhabitable and that its consequences were real and interminable , acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 9" x 12", 2006


On the way down it may as well have been a game and not a war, the wind was just playing and the snow was so much like wet kisses on their cheeks but as soon as their feet hit the ground, the snow turned to ashes and the air turned to fumes , acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 9" x 12", 2006

The girls and boys built their boats up to the sky; they never got older because the rules had been changed on the hilltop where nature chose to surrender , acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 9" x 12"


There was no need anymore for camouflage but when battling a plant this large and this pink it seemed a fine tool for motivation, and mixed-media on vellum and board , 12" x 9" 2006

This is another one of those sites where men would discuss things. And every word spoken would splinter the core a little more, bringing new destructions and new tableaus of classifications and disorders. Today speech would be wasted on this high mountain in one great commotion like the final Fourth of July , acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 9" x 12", 2006


They rose up out of the water in a pink submarine and launched missiles at buildings that scattered back and forth across a roving hill, acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 9" x 12", 2006

The cities had been emptied, the suburbs razed. This building alone stood high above the melting glaciers and the plastic sea, and it too would be in splinters by noon , acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 12" x 9" 2006


The men and women had slept and showered in buildings like that. Giant hotels with overpriced wine and underpaid staff. There they broke things...TVs, radios, rules and relationships. Because of its great height and its superior construction this one remained standing the longest and more than one fleet would be needed to bring it to the ground , acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 9" x 12", 2006

It wasn't the people that were so hard to be rid of but all the precious places that were so hard to destroy , acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 12" x 9", 2006


After the inhabitants had been removed, it became abundantly clear that even the hills would have to be slain , acrylic, color-aid paper, and mixed-media on vellum and aluminum, 6"x 6", 2006

It's just such a breeze , acrylic, color-aid paper, and mixed-media on vellum and aluminum, 6"x 6", 2006



Curtain call , acrylic, color-aid paper, and mixed-media on vellum and aluminum, 6"x 6", 2006

They scoured the land for survivors, ridding the air of guilt and complaint and fending off maturity at every turn , acrylic, color-aid paper, and mixed-media on wood, 4" x 4", 2006


On a clear day in the first of three new months that had been added to the calendar, a flying object was sighted above the dripping hill. It was determined that though men had not succeeded in staying alive, children would continue far into the future where time machines would allow them to return to earth and elsewhere and to this very spot where they would look down at the first generation of diapered eradicators and admire their great effort , acrylic, color-aid paper, and mixed-media on wood, 4"x4", 2006

Here were the mountains of condominiums where people had tried hard to distinguish themselves from one another by buying extravagant clothes and owning peculiar pets but where -instead- they succeeded only in turning eccentricity into convention. And as fate sometimes seems to have a good handle on irony it is true that in the end, they all went to their graves in exactly the same way , acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 12" x 9", 2006


At last man had renounced religion and had agreed to make temples of tolerance.   They grew their hair long and ate their own limbs to avoid harming the pea-pods.   They perished quickly but their ideas lingered in their strange edifices leaving a foul odor like wet wool and poltergeists. This was a stink that could only be eliminated by military assault. After today, the kids would return to their ships and the pea-pods would live forever, 12" x 9", mixed media/wood, 2005

Stockpiles of weapons, warheads and stashes of harmful materials were buried beneath the ground. Long, squat inconspicuous sheds were placed above the soil to divert prying eyes. But children can't be fooled. As they approached from the sea the grey rooftops transformed into rainbows right before their eyes, acrylic and mixed-media on vellum and board, 9" x 12", 2006

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