His works delve into the inherent contradictions of Western culture with seething wit and abrupt adjacency. His works are painterly recombinations of daily imagery wielded into a Frankensteinian grotesque that is at once expressionistic and representational; familiar and yet dissonant. His composites are at times violent and jarring, even abject and intensely surreal, as he combines the human with the animal and the inanimate to the point of abstraction. In Roukes' work, the representational is delivered with the expressionistic force of the abstract expressionists and the graphic precision of the illustrator. Interested in the fallacies of consumer culture, Roukes draws from daily life to seek out poetic discord from the familiarity of the mundane.