Keith Haring Foundation
Grommets
August 28 – September 24, 2020
Gutson
What do they know about suffering, the new missionaries—
but they are never wrong—even now,
the American pierced by arrows, supine & leaking
zeal in the nylon web of martyrdom. Three times
he would not deny them his disease. He demanded
the blessing of temptation. No cathedral
but a megachurch for flies, its buttresses of youtube
& ribs, the grommets cedared with allusions.
There I saw the glory of patagonia
fermenting on the beach, his smiling body stark
among the desiccated refugees in their overflowing rafts
who did not want god correctly. The helicopter passes
a small picture of progress & her long edge
pushing the world in two. A couple thumps & beats,
the thin blood choking a prayer from the flesh—
this was John Chau’s witness.
– Travis Diehl
Rasmus Røhling. Grommets. August/September 2020. Photo by Brian Kure. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020. Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print.Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020. Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Proposal for the sculpture “Autopsy (John Allen Chau)” at The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2020 (Detail). Epoxy, polyethylene, wood, metal, oil paint, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, latex, nylon, fabric, feathers, power washed gravel, SLA print. Approximately 150 x 180 x 125cm. 
Rasmus Røhling. Grommets. August/September 2020. Photo by Brian Kure. 
Rasmus Røhling. Hodegetria, 2020. (Still) HD video, 3:33 min.