{"title":"Sale","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"carcias-de-recuerdos-caress-of-memories-by-maribel-portela-mexico","title":"Carcias de Recuerdos (Caress of Memories) by Maribel Portela, Mexico","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarcias de Recuerdos (Caress of Memories)\u003cbr\u003eHand Series, 2004\u003cbr\u003eMaribel Portela, Mexico\u003cbr\u003eclay, pigment, custom made metal stand\u003cbr\u003e18\" high x 11\" wide x 5\" deep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis sculpture was one of five created for Maribel Portela's solo exhibition at Quintana Galleries in 1984. Maribel wanted to incorporate the Buddhist mudras, or hand gestures, into her clay sculpture so heavily influenced by the works from early mesoamerican civilizations. In \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarcias de Recuerdos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, the hand is in the Vitarka mudra which represents the wheel of law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaribel Portela was born in 1960 in Mexico D.F.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eShe obtained her degree in fine art at the prestigious Escuela National de Artes Plasticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ePortela’s clay sculpture, while unmistakably within the genre of contemporary fine art, maintains its roots in the pre-Columbian figurative works of Mexico.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe rich flavors of these magical figures form a substantial presence in Portela’s ceramic works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePortela brings a primal, subtle and sophisticated body of clay objects inspired by the richly colored and highly adaptable flora of Mexico. Portela’s sculptures, in various media, combine elements of traditional, religious, and pre-Hispanic symbols taken from sacred cultures, to create art that is relevant in our modern world. \u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAs an artist, Portela has stayed clear of political agendas, social pronouncements, and religious or anti-religious statements which have characterized much of Mexico’s contemporary art.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eInstead, she remains nonpartisan, content to express and give form to the mystical energy which she perceives around her.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ePortela is dedicated to art’s capacity as an expressive vehicle, yet one that is unburdened by dogma or rhetoric.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eFree of ulterior agendas, Portela’s work becomes a uniquely pure expression of the joy and wonder which are such integral parts of her personality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I had a friend who used to say that our body--wrinkles, shapes, colors, etc.--spoke.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eI fell in love with those words, which for me contain a lot of truth--although maybe I don’t have what it takes to understand the body’s language.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eMy figures of tattooed men tell a story.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWe’re all tattooed inside; we have terrible and wonderful tattoos. Imagine that your life story began on your forehead and ended on your big toe; you wouldn’t be able to deceive me, nor could I fool you.\"  - Maribel Portela, 2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quintana Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39346523701359,"sku":"","price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1813\/7073\/products\/POR04002_Recuerdos.jpg?v=1621743562"},{"product_id":"personal-valor-is-not-enough-c-1940-by-jose-chavez-morado-1909-2002","title":"Personal Courage is Not Enough, c. 1940 by Jose Chavez Morado (1909-2002)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eValor Personal No Es Suficiente (Personal Courage is Not Enough), c. 1940\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eby José Chavez Morado (1909 - 2002)\u003cbr\u003ebroadside printed by the Taller de Grafica Popular, Mexico City\u003cbr\u003earchival framing with an acid free mat and a contemporary wood frame\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13” h x 9” w paper size\u003cbr\u003e21\" h x 17\" w framed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eValor Personal No Es Suficiente\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e relates to unifying communities against\u003cbr\u003eviolence. Image depicts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecommunity members uniting to expel a man, possibly a \"camisa dorado\" (gold shirt) who would be from the A.R.M. (Revolutionary Mexican Alliance), a fascist organization known for suppression of unions and violent domination of the poor. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Rifles should no longer find you alone. Your personal valor is not \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eenough. You need the support of your community. Create the proper environment through spreading information.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosé Chávez Morado\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e was born into a humble family of mineworkers in the town of Silao, Guanajuato. His grandparents were avid book collectors and from early age he had access to their library which contained books on science and philosophy as well as illustrated magazines from which he copied images by the French engraver Gustave Doré. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKeen for adventure, in 1925 Chávez Morado boarded a steam train and left for the United States to seek work and earn his fortune. His first jobs included washing dishes and agricultural work, and he ended up packing salmon at a factory in Alaska where he worked with prisoners and illegal immigrants. The money he earned enabled him to travel to Los Angeles where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. He then returned to Silao, where his father opened a shop to sell his work. The enterprise was not entirely successful, so Chávez Morado then moved to Mexico City in the hope of selling more of his work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1931 he won a scholarship from the government of his home state, Guanajuato, to study at the Escuela Central de Artes Plásticas, the art school of UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in Mexico City, where he learnt printmaking from Francisco Díaz de León and Emilio Amero. He also spent time at the Centro Popular de Pintura 'Saturnino Herrán', where he met Leopoldo Méndez. Fascinated by Méndez's work, Chávez Morado removed his posters from lamp-posts and put them up in his room. In 1933 he became a teacher of drawing in primary and secondary schools, and two years later he was appointed head of the Sección de Artes Plásticas at the Fine Arts Department of SEP (Secretaria de Educación Pública\/Ministry of Education). In the same year he married the artist Olga Costa; their home in the city of Guanajuato is now a museum devoted to their work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFuelled by his commitment to social change, Chávez Morado joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1937. He was a founding member of the LEAR in 1934 and then became a member of the TGP in 1938, working with the collective until 1941. At the TGP he did not believe in selling prints as art objects, spending his time instead producing leaflets and posters on political themes. With other TGP members he would post these in streets at night, a dangerous activity as rival groups prowled the streets removing anything that they considered to be propaganda.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs well as printmaking, Chávez Morado also painted murals, in particular a mural at the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in Guanajuato, a history museum of which he was Director during the 1960s. This depicted Miguel Hidalgo, the initiator of the Mexican Independence movement in 1810, and was inaugurated during the independence celebrations of 1955. Chávez Morado was also responsible for some of the sculptures in the courtyard of the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHe travelled widely, visiting Cuba, Egypt, Spain, Greece and Turkey. In 1974 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes in Mexico. He died in 2002 at the age of 93, at his home in Guanajuato.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Quintana Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39866535149679,"sku":"","price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1813\/7073\/products\/E0A0818.jpg?v=1680977935"},{"product_id":"ballad-of-the-street-car-1939-by-jose-chavez-morado-1909-2002","title":"Ballad of the Street Car, 1939 by Jose Chavez Morado (1909-2002)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eCorrido de los Tranvias (Ballad of the Street Car), 1939\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJosé Chavez Morado (1909-2002)\u003cbr\u003ePrinted by El Taller de Grafica Popular\u003cbr\u003eBroadside\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e17” high x 13” wide paper size\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBallad of the Street Car\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e relates to the tram strikes in Mexico City in 1939. The satirical\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eimage and ballad clearly reflect the influence of Posada's broadsheets. A giant man lies on top of a tram full of passengers, which buckles under his weight. At the front of the tram, passengers pay their fares; these are fed through a tube to the man on top, representing a foreign capitalist who accumulates profits from the public transport industry.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe verses beneath the image explain that on the last day of October in 1939 not a single tram under the jurisdiction of the Inglesa Compañia was in circulation as workers went on strike. The strikers complained that they had not received a pay rise for twenty years, and that although the law restricted them to an eight-hour day, this was ignored by the tram companies who forced them to work longer hours without overtime. The workers were not entitled to meal breaks, forcing them to eat while they were driving and thus putting the lives of passengers at risk. The workers also raised concerns about the fact that no upgrades had been made to vehicles or tracks by the tram companies; instead, all the profits were swallowed up by the capitalists. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosé Chávez Morado\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e was born into a humble family of mineworkers in the town of Silao, Guanajuato. His grandparents were avid book collectors and from early age he had access to their library which contained books on science and philosophy as well as illustrated magazines from which he copied images by the French engraver Gustave Doré. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eKeen for adventure, in 1925 Chávez Morado boarded a steam train and left for the United States to seek work and earn his fortune. His first jobs included washing dishes and agricultural work, and he ended up packing salmon at a factory in Alaska where he worked with prisoners and illegal immigrants. The money he earned enabled him to travel to Los Angeles where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. He then returned to Silao, where his father opened a shop to sell his work. The enterprise was not entirely successful, so Chávez Morado then moved to Mexico City in the hope of selling more of his work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eIn 1931 he won a scholarship from the government of his home state, Guanajuato, to study at the Escuela Central de Artes Plásticas, the art school of UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in Mexico City, where he learnt printmaking from Francisco Díaz de León and Emilio Amero. He also spent time at the Centro Popular de Pintura 'Saturnino Herrán', where he met Leopoldo Méndez. Fascinated by Méndez's work, Chávez Morado removed his posters from lamp-posts and put them up in his room. In 1933 he became a teacher of drawing in primary and secondary schools, and two years later he was appointed head of the Sección de Artes Plásticas at the Fine Arts Department of SEP (Secretaria de Educación Pública\/Ministry of Education). In the same year he married the artist Olga Costa; their home in the city of Guanajuato is now a museum devoted to their work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFuelled by his commitment to social change, Chávez Morado joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1937. He was a founding member of the LEAR in 1934 and then became a member of the TGP in 1938, working with the collective until 1941. At the TGP he did not believe in selling prints as art objects, spending his time instead producing leaflets and posters on political themes. With other TGP members he would post these in streets at night, a dangerous activity as rival groups prowled the streets removing anything that they considered to be propaganda.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAs well as printmaking, Chávez Morado also painted murals, in particular a mural at the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in Guanajuato, a history museum of which he was Director during the 1960s. This depicted Miguel Hidalgo, the initiator of the Mexican Independence movement in 1810, and was inaugurated during the independence celebrations of 1955. Chávez Morado was also responsible for some of the sculptures in the courtyard of the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eHe travelled widely, visiting Cuba, Egypt, Spain, Greece and Turkey. In 1974 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes in Mexico. He died in 2002 at the age of 93, at his home in Guanajuato.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Quintana Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39866537082991,"sku":"","price":325.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1813\/7073\/products\/MG_0685edit.jpg?v=1628371569"},{"product_id":"la-risa-del-pueblo-by-alfredo-zalce-1908-2003","title":"La Risa Del Pueblo (Laughter of the People), 1939 by Alfredo Zalce (1908-2003)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Risa Del Pueblo (Laughter of the People), 1939\u003cbr\u003eby Alfredo Zalce (1908-2003), Mexico\u003cbr\u003eOriginal Poster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e15 15\/16\" h x 26 3\/8\" w, paper size\u003cbr\u003eexcellent condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAlfredo Zalce’s poster \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLa Risa del Pueblo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e takes on the aspect of a political cartoon. By juxtaposing text and image, the artist creates caricatures of contemporary political\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e fi\u003c\/span\u003egures in order to denigrate them. Five\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e fi\u003c\/span\u003egures—one a generic bandit and four labeled as Pablo González, Leon Ossorio, Iturbe, and Bolívar Sierra—are crowded into a gray car, the “automóvil gris.” They escape from a building they have raided, leaving a woman lying in the doorway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe labeled caricatures would have resounded with the viewing public. During the revolution, Pablo González was involved in a network of thieves called the Banda del Automóvil Gris, who broke into homes by wearing police uniforms and showing fake search warrants. González was also a politician, and in 1919 he made a bid for the presidential candidacy. In order to change his image, he produced an extremely popular movie, El automóvil gris. This plan back fired, however, only cementing his reputation as a dishonest politician. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the print, González sits at the front of the automóvil gris, with the late-1930s politicians Ossorio, Iturbe, and Sierra behind him. By including the anachronistic\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  fi\u003c\/span\u003egure of González, Zalce indicts these contemporary politicians as corrupt. The three were part of the Comite de Salvación Pública, a vehemently anticommunist and anti-Cárdenas group, and thus were opposed to the political ideologies of the Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP). Zalce has exaggerated their features to make them easily identifiable to the Mexican public. The stolen scroll tucked under González’s arm, labeled as articles 123 and 127 of the 1917 Mexican constitution, also refers to the dishonesty of these politicians. The theft of these articles, which preserved the right to strike and prevented government officials from increasing their own salaries while in office, highlights the threat posed by these politicians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the bottom left, a poem further condemns the clown like characters of the automóvil gris, denouncing the group as “not revolutionaries, nor even Mexicans.” Through this distinctive, morbid comedy, Zalce has created a recognizable propagandistic image and a defense of President Cárdenas’s politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlfredo Zalce\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ewas born in Patzcuaro, in the state of Michoacan, on January 12, 1908. During his early years he became friends with Mexico’s older great artists, including Rivera, Tamayo, Siquieros, Orozco, and Kahlo. He founded art schools and organizations which still function and are of current importance. 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Intelligent and ironic, Montoya’s work can make fun of the less attractive aspects of human nature; greed, vanity and selfishness, and can celebrating the simple pleasures and beauty of our world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMartin feels that he can most objectively observe the complexities of our modern world by simplifying his own life as much as possible. He lives in the small adobe home that was owned by his grandfather in Tecolote, New Mexico, population 40, and finds inspiration in his immediate surroundings. His favorite subjects include cats, his wife, friends and people he has observed at a distance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Quintana Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40821026848879,"sku":"","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1813\/7073\/products\/MM162_SelfPortrait.jpg?v=1652126074"},{"product_id":"ghost-wheel-2005-by-maximilliano-pruneda","title":"Ghost Wheel, 2005 by Maximilliano Pruneda","description":"Ghost Wheel, 2005 \u003cbr\u003eby Maximilliano Pruneda \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(b. 1948), Mexican\u003cbr\u003ewood base, fabric, pigment, metal adornments\u003cbr\u003e23\" tall x 15\" wide x 8\" deep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I have an ardent interest in images that allude to processes of ritual, places of conjuring, otherness, healing and the invisible.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eI seek to provide a visual dialogue that hints at these interests.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eI present for contemplation imagery that conveys a muffled and haunted aura, with aspects of our primordial nature.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAdditionally, these images imply the human interaction in sustaining the world.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eTransformation through ritual is a continuing theme, which permeates my perception that object and image transcend aesthetics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI find native imagery a fascinating springboard for my work.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eTribal representations often codify the existence of the visible, as well as the invisible, world.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThey serve as evidence of interactions with, and the desire to control, the potent realm of the unseen.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWith perhaps idealized speculation, I imagine past clans with a greater balance between the earth, the unknown and man.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eMy work is an attempt to define that balance for myself.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eI create images to pose a question or provoke thought about spiritual striving within our primal self.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy imagery serves as reliquaries for the mysterious; to give reverence to sacred feelings.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eTo some extent my work is about memory, not necessarily from reality, but more about possibilities--what could have been or what can be.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eI strive to empower my imagery by imbuing it with open-ended qualities, creating a stir of intrigue and psychic disturbance in the viewer.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eI feel that I accomplish this by putting forth presences that are simultaneously the viewer and the viewed.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Maximilliano Pruneda, 2005\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Quintana Galleries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40821057618031,"sku":"","price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1813\/7073\/products\/MPS22001_GhostWheel.jpg?v=1652127815"},{"product_id":"vintage-turquoise-cluster-bracelet-by-s-weebothee-zuni","title":"Vintage Turquoise Cluster Bracelet by S. 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