Roots Design: Art and Architecture for the People

I do a lot of things with life.  All the so many many things.  Just finished teaching my first art class, printmaking for 9-11 yr olds.  Those guys were bananas.  Got some cool art out of the deal though. I'm designing these cabin kits for a non-profit my aunt is starting up in Lake County that will help people that got burned out by the terrible forest fires during the drought get housing back on their properties.   Check out website.   I'm processing the last batch of the trees, the surrogate/simulacra/ersatz human bodies.  Their writhing, twisting, straining to be upright, their reach towards the light, their connection between the earth and the sky. I take these forms that are already obfuscated metaphors for my own struggles and I rinse them through my abstract/mixed media/organitecture/stylistic filter, the origami/loopy square dialectic that started back in Oakland with T he Breaking Spaces Series , passages that reference ...

The world tilted a bit for me last year when it came to light that my brain had somehow developed a mass of scar tissue in it's right anterior temporal lobe, a crucial region in the the limbic system, which is the physiological seat of what we think of as consciousness ie the processing or sensory information into emotional response, filing the experience into the short term memory, and thence to the long term memory, by which we develop our sense of "self". The scar tissue evident on an MRI brain scan suggested that the frequent episodes of really intense, really spooky experiences of deja-vu I had been experiencing for years were actually "focal, partial-onset seizures", small electrical storms in the brain. I began processing this information through my work, and realized how deeply the un-diagnosed condition had effected my consciousness and artistic output up until then .  I was told that if the seizures weren't controlled completely they could deve...

Survey show of works spanning 2009-present, located at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo 93401 Homunculii, oil on canvas, 24 x 26 inches,  2009, view on website detail I'm interested in the deep structure of the universe; the spiritual, magical essence of being, the way narrative, consciousness, form, myth can echo each other in visual space.  Rhythm.  Harmony.  Pictures like music. Boundaries , mixed media on panel, 24 x 12 inches, 2015, view on jordanquintero.com Spring Pt 1, mixed media on panel, 24 x 12 inches, 2015, view on artist's website Late Rains Pt. 2: Time , mixed media, resin on panel, 18 x 18 inches, 2010, view/purchase on jordanquintero.com Late Rains Pt 1: Time,  mixed media, resin on panel, 18 x 18 inches, 2010, view/purchase on jordanquintero.com Late Rains Pt 3: Remembering Her , mixed media on panel, 18 x 18 inches, 2010 view/purchase on jordanquintero.com Spring, Pt 2, mixed media on birch ply, 1...

Moments, 3 months later.  So much Changes.  So much stays the same.