THE ARTWORK OF THE MONTH: APRIL – “RADIO FLYER”
The red curtain still holds the echo of silence.
On stage, stools wait, the microphone holds its breath, and the grand piano stands ready for its first note.
A little red Radio Flyer cart, packed with sheet music, has made its way here — a playful nod to childhood within the seriousness of rehearsal.
Everything is set. Only the gesture is missing. The sound. The spark.
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Technical details
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm
Year: 2021
Support: Canvas on wooden stretcher bars
Framing: framed in a natural light wood American box frame
Finish: Satin anti-UV varnish
Certificate: Original signed artwork, delivered with certificate of authenticity
Artistic approach
This painting continues my series of suspended moments from daily life, where what’s about to happen matters as much as what’s shown.
Here, music is absent but imminent, through objects and their poised quietness.
The Radio Flyer cart, usually playful, becomes a vessel of memory, echoing the rigor and poetry of artistic preparation.
As often in my work, the human presence is implied — evoked by objects and the silence they hold.
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RADIO FLYER
alain rouschmeyer
Acrylic on canvas
2021
100 x 70 cm
There are silences that come before sound — moments held in suspension, just before a single note shifts the air. “Radio Flyer” captures that precise instant: the before. Before the concert, before the voices, before the piano awakens.
On stage, a majestic Steinway & Sons piano stands in quiet command. Beside it, two empty stools, a suspended microphone, and soft lighting that carves out shapes from the surrounding shadows. But the true focal point lies elsewhere: a small, bright red Radio Flyer wagon — the kind once pulled through childhood streets in America — now repurposed.
Instead of toys or sand, it carries boxes of jazz scores, carefully labeled and neatly arranged. The wagon seems drawn from memory — a playful bridge between the world of childhood and the solemnity of performance. You can almost hear the soft creak of its wheels crossing the wooden floorboards.
As in many of my paintings, objects speak. They carry traces of gesture, of anticipation, of quiet rituals. Here, the concert has yet to begin, but everything is in place: the instruments, the seats, the papers… and that red wagon, offering a whimsical counterpoint to the seriousness of a jazz stage.
This painting asks a simple yet universal question: what do we carry with us through life, onto which stage do we arrive, and with what tools? Radio Flyer answers not in words, but in image — and in stillness.
