{"id":446,"date":"2012-07-24T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:21","slug":"view-the-painting-and-write-your-own-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/view-the-painting-and-write-your-own-story\/","title":{"rendered":"View the Painting and Write Your Own Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-447 aligncenter\" title=\"michellebasichendry\" src=\"http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/michellebasichendry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"221\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/artscapes.ca\/blog-home\/\">Michelle Basic Hendry<\/a>, in her recent newsletter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Why are there no people or animals in your paintings?<\/p>\n<p>A: When there is a figure of another person or an animal in a painting, we are left to wonder about them and try to understand their point of view. We are observers instead of participants. By avoiding any other figures, I invite the viewer to put themselves into the painting, discover what I am discovering, relate to it on a more personal level. In particular, in the paintings of abandoned buildings, I want the person looking at the painting to write their own story in it, to where it becomes their place too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/view-the-painting-and-write-your-own-story\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to View the Painting and Write Your Own Story\"><p>From Michelle Basic Hendry, in her recent newsletter. Q: Why are there no people or animals in your paintings? A: When there is a figure of another person or an animal in a painting, we are left to wonder about them and try to understand their point of view. We are observers instead of participants. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[8,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75833,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/75833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}