The Texture & Specificity of Life

This is a project. Painting. Drawing. Same thing. Painting (which shall indicate making pices of stuff with stuff on then to sell to people to put in their houses. I know. Crazy. Right?) ANYWAY. State. So. The profound thing to say is Painting is like like the dao. In that it is a thing that has no beginning and know end. That is formless, yet contains all forms. It is a metaphor for being and existence (to paraphrase some french guy to impress a girl ;) sigh It takes so much time and money. Well, I am spending so much time and money. But I feel that it is necessary and completely within the bounds of reason to meet the demands of the things with stuff on them that tec t that I want to make demand of me) to demand of me (R.D. Lang Anyway/ pictures are like money. completely imaginary, but there they are. learned. so. I make pictures. The things with no beginning etc. Lately, I've been using a lot of lines. But what I really want for there to be is olor. Lines are che...

Thanks to everyone who came out. Big ups to MW, the beer guy, internet porn, love junkies, bay mamas, and mamas mamas. All my folks in the Atl, we gotcha. To Cali sunshine, All love all one love, Dr Bronners, hippie shit paint til my hands fall off Make my life a mess and a messy poem. Because I like the way it looks so nice together. I like the way it looks. That's it Because I like the way it looks. Will put more pics on FB later. Damn you FB. And cigarettes. Damn you cigarettes, so tired and it's all your fault. ;) PS Nessi I painted six of the same paintings. Remember how I said I wanted to do that?

Artist Statement: My most recent body of work consists of multiple series, both figurative and abstract, united by a limited use of color as a means to investigate certain metaphysical properties inherent, to my mind, to the process of creating artwork. The paintings in the recent “Stop/Motion” series are the result of an intensive time-based studio project in which I prepared eight identical 30” x 30” panels and executed them in sequence with charcoal, graphite and gesso, giving each two intensive two-hour sessions documented by stop-motion photography. Seeking to involve the recent “live painting” phenomenon into my process, I approached each piece as a meditation exercise, in which I was “seeking the center.” I think of them in a sense as mandalas: collections of movements and patterns that move in orbit around their center. The use of a limited, or binary, palette serves my intention to metaphorically synthesize Eastern traditions, primarily Zen Buddhism, with the Western tradi...

co produced with martin films Jordan Quintero - new work at MISSION WORKSHOP from martinfilms on Vimeo . kinda cool.\ about the show, about the show, hmmmmm helloooooooo!