New Orleans Folk Art From Salvaged, Recycled or Rescued Wood. Self Representing New Orleans Louisiana Artist Lance "Varg" Vargas Creates and Sells Wood Folk Art Online

'bra rabbit'
App. 20"x30"

Inspired by the Southern trickster tales of Bruh Rabbit. See, here.

'susu vu'
App. 24"x36"

An archaic member of the modern day Voo Family. Made from shelving and Katrina flooded saw blades.

'riki voo'
App. 24"x36"

"Archaic member of the Voo Family. Made from found objects and a wooden cabinet door. Sawblades flooded in Hurricane Katrina"

'chinchuba'
App. 28"x16"

Alligator is made from salvaged wood and back is a rescued cabinet door with hinges attached. Saw is flooded and rusty from Hurricane Katrina. "Chinchuba" is the Choctaw word for alligator.

'prince rabbit'
App 6"x22"

Inspired by the novel "Watership Down." Made with found objects, copper bar top and heart pine.

'tv2'
App. 2"x4"x5"

Made from a peice of heartpine wall stud pulled from 100+ year-old house. Screen is a Pentium computer processor. Bar at bottom is a piano key.

'tv1'
App. 2"x4"x6"

Made from heartpine from wall stud of 100 year-old renovated shotgun. Copper salvaged from French Quarter bar. Panel is flooded family photo.

'ghosts from the oort cloud'
App. 8"x20"

Made from found objects and rescued wood. The Oort cloud is a hypothetical spherical cloud of comets which may lie roughly 50 000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun.