{"id":2496,"date":"2018-10-07T21:33:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T21:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2018-10-07T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T21:33:16","slug":"other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/07\/other\/","title":{"rendered":"Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Other<\/b> (2018)<br>\noil on board<br>\n40&#215;60 in.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Other<\/em>, is a culmination of experiences. In the spring of 2016 a <g class=\"gr_ gr_97 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"97\" data-gr-id=\"97\">pregnate<\/g> <g class=\"gr_ gr_119 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"119\" data-gr-id=\"119\">friend,<\/g> offered to pose for me. After many sketches and <g class=\"gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"10\" data-gr-id=\"10\">photos<\/g> I chose to concentrate on this one because I loved the way the shadow of the large money tree cascaded across her body and obscured her portrait. I began the piece in early 2017 while in residency in the Grand Canyon I was on the lookout for a suitable landscape that might serve for the backdrop. While there I began to realize just how much the land is entrenched in politics; a historical and contemporary battleground between preserving natural lands versus using them. This piece intends to question whether the human relationship with Earth is a symbiotic or parasitic one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other (2018) oil on board 40&#215;60 in. Other, is a culmination of experiences. In the spring of 2016 a pregnate friend, offered to pose for me. After many sketches and photos I chose to concentrate on this one because I loved the way the shadow of the large money tree cascaded across her body and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanievote.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}