Roots Design: Art and Architecture for the People

I dont usually post music to my blog, but when I do they're usually depressing semi retro future disco robot garage tunes, but good.  Thanks to the oneone for sharing tunes, hope beat church was sick. just trying to do lots of situps.  and drawing over the universe and stuff. doot deet doot love

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...

Everything would be ok if only blank. (there is a sense of the absurd) We are so goddamn vincible. Truth I'm sorry the show got canceled, but everything is everything.  We do the best we can. It woud have been beautiful at any rate. Love that, beauty. Rates. Etc Here's my little statement I was going to make: I think they are about nature and stuff.  Knowing beyond the intellect. Life and death maybe. Different ways we know that.  Different ways of knowing. Love. Different ways to love. Life. Etc.

"...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...

It's a hard thing not to be overwhelmed by fear and sadness and anger at the apparent injustice of the universe.  It's hard to believe the universe has gone through all the trouble to develop our consciousness and left that terrible design flaw that borders it, and it's seemingly arbitrary application (hello, mister death). The studio process is a way for me to make something beautiful and honest and true out of those emotions of frustration, sadness and anger.  It is a way of seeking understanding, and acceptance, and hope.  It seems nature possesses a fundamental understanding of itself, it is terrible economy and strict logic that balances inside and outside, up and down, left and right. Compared to the amorphous nature of emotion and meaning in our subjective experience, there is strong cool comfort in a horizon, a load path, light and shade and shadow.  In painting, I seek to negotiate a balance between the inner and outer spaces of my being.  I always b...