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United States
Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 48.5 W x 29 H x 1 D in
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It is a place, a story, a stage, a state of mind, a myth, a dream, my California. My home. My Native State. I have been riding and driving in cars on her highways, or walking, through her mountains and hills and plains and deserts and along her beaches since as long as I can remember. In the ocean. (Chattering, obsessed with feeling that power, finding it in myself...the endlessness...) This land has always felt vast and empty and, at the same time, crowded with people and their spirits...so many stories on the wind, giving me a sense of being possessed by her, and never, ever, quite understanding what we’re all doing here... There is something aggressive in the grandeur of this place, a certain violence and abandonment in the beauty of uplifted and broken ranges that march jaggedly into the sea, or wide limitless pine forests, or the over-grazed windswept, voluptuous hills that speak of Spanish conquests, a disrupted Eden, ancient legacies entwined... In the flux of the last decade or wanderings and artventures, I’ve meditated deeply on the dreams of this land, and it's people(s)...they are frenzied, acquisitive dreams, California dreams. Wave after wave of people risking everything for the acquisition of gold, glory, souls, slaves, fame, land, enlightenment....
Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:48.5 W x 29 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:United States.
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United States
I work in cycles and series and projects, often several concurrently, compulsively, relentlessly, trying to understand. I understand why they call it a practice now. ... It is the passing that I try to cultivate, the happening of a painting, a sensitivity to the magic of it's appearance, the music that comes through. Synesthesia. ... But there are always negotiations, and so much labor, and guessing, and questioning of intentions: the circles. My art is how I try to handle my mistakes, how I deal with pain and loss and memory, and try to make beauty from that; it is highly analytic, in this sense. ... I think of my pictures primarily as American. Californian, maybe. They are a form of dance, I think. - JQ, November 19th, 2013
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