"And Mind itself is magic, coursing through the flesh...
and Flesh itself is magic, dancing on a clock
and Time itself, the magic length of God..."-
-Leonard Cohen
Bio-
Born into the gentle folds of the coastal mountain ranges of California, my first memory is the sound of the wind on long pulls down lonely western highways. I am of the promised land, and descended from the sea and the moon, conquered and conquerer, fugitive and magistrate, the beauty of their miscegenation is my inheritance. Continuing the proud West Coast tradition of heretical free thinking, border crossing counter-cultural production and innovative artistic practices, this is my existential act. It is my reach towards a personal freedom, my connection to the ancestors, a statement of my unique being in the infinite maw of time. Thank you for looking.
Artist Statement-
My work develops organically, growing through the soil of arduous, groping labor and out towards the magic light of conscious connection. All my work revolves around questions of the Self. Drawing from myriad intellectual and artistic traditions, my practice is a quest for the Philosopher's Stone of the modern age--document and analogue of the journey in search of the sacred soul of contemporary man. These images are my iterations of scratching at an ancient itch: to know, to understand. In re-presenting, I seek to gain perspective on the ever-present enigma of my own self-consciousness.
Influences/inspiration include comic book illustration, old master painting (esp Rembrandt and Goya), the avant garde modernist cannon, contemporary conceptual work, the current revival of figuration in the wake of "lowbrow" and "street art", the mission school, zen buddhism, underground edm events and culture, Jungian psychology, surfing, love, bonsai trees, construction, modernist architecture and design, and nature.
-JQ, '12
and Flesh itself is magic, dancing on a clock
and Time itself, the magic length of God..."-
-Leonard Cohen
Bio-
Born into the gentle folds of the coastal mountain ranges of California, my first memory is the sound of the wind on long pulls down lonely western highways. I am of the promised land, and descended from the sea and the moon, conquered and conquerer, fugitive and magistrate, the beauty of their miscegenation is my inheritance. Continuing the proud West Coast tradition of heretical free thinking, border crossing counter-cultural production and innovative artistic practices, this is my existential act. It is my reach towards a personal freedom, my connection to the ancestors, a statement of my unique being in the infinite maw of time. Thank you for looking.
Artist Statement-
My work develops organically, growing through the soil of arduous, groping labor and out towards the magic light of conscious connection. All my work revolves around questions of the Self. Drawing from myriad intellectual and artistic traditions, my practice is a quest for the Philosopher's Stone of the modern age--document and analogue of the journey in search of the sacred soul of contemporary man. These images are my iterations of scratching at an ancient itch: to know, to understand. In re-presenting, I seek to gain perspective on the ever-present enigma of my own self-consciousness.
Influences/inspiration include comic book illustration, old master painting (esp Rembrandt and Goya), the avant garde modernist cannon, contemporary conceptual work, the current revival of figuration in the wake of "lowbrow" and "street art", the mission school, zen buddhism, underground edm events and culture, Jungian psychology, surfing, love, bonsai trees, construction, modernist architecture and design, and nature.
-JQ, '12
