Roots Design: Art and Architecture for the People

City Roots: LA , mixed media on plywood, 8 x 24 inches, 2013, ORIGINAL SOLD,  Purchase full-size giclée print from my website.  $95 City Roots: Singapore,  mixed media on plywood, 8 x 24 inches, 2013, SOLD First Building,  mixed media on cherry plank, 3.5 x 9 inches, 2013, $95                             click to go check out through my Etsy shop Pyramids Are Cheap,   mixed media on cherry plank, 3.5 x 9 inches, 2013, $95                            click to go check out through my new Etsy shop

Trying to be a Tree, continued. New studio works from 2012 for sale, shipping to N. America included in price. 2012 , 2012, oil on panel, 13 x 13 inches, $300 view or purchase on jordanquintero.com Insoluble , 2012, oil on panel, 12.5 x 16.5 inches $350 view or purchase on jordanquintero.com Central Coast Series,  2012, oil on panel, 13 x 13 inches, $300 view or purchase on jordanquintero.com Animal Medicine, 2012, ink, guache on cherry, $80 View/purchase on jordanquintero.com Pyramids Are Cheap, 2012, ink, guache on cherry, $80 View/purchase on jordanquintero.com Synapse, 2012, ink, graphite, guache on cherry, $old View/purchase on jordanquintero.com First Building, 2012, ink, graphite, guache on cherry, $80. View/purchase on jordanquintero.com Alpha Quail, 2012, ink, graphite, guache on cherry, $80 View/purchase on jordanquintero.com Nomad,  2012, oil on panel, framed, 28 x 34 inches, $1300 Limited edition giclee pr...

"...we're prone to overestimate our own agency in nature....Our grammar might teach us to divide the world into active subjects and passive objects, but in a coevolutionary relationship every subject is also an object, every object a subject." Michael Pollan, in The Botany of Desire Lately I've found myself engaged again and again in contemplation, analysis, meditation on what constitutes "nature" and "the natural".    This is, of course, the ancient philosophic question of "the good".  In visual art, it is that play between the geometrically perfect conception, a drafted representation of a thing in itself, and the shaky, sloppy, imperfect movements that more accurately record and express the psychic and physical being of the artist, his mutability, his reality,  that I feel characterizes all "great" art.  What is it "the struggle of the artist against his limitations" Vonnegut said... It is the search, the strugg...