{"id":554,"date":"2014-12-20T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T21:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartrrs.co.uk\/?page_id=554"},"modified":"2019-03-23T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T21:52:07","slug":"other-pieces","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/?page_id=554","title":{"rendered":"Ideas as works in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following items&nbsp;illustrate&nbsp;some of the different ideas I am contemplating&nbsp;or&nbsp;developing.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Maquette for garden sculpture &#8216;Energies&#8217;<\/h5>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a small model made with brass but intended to be developed into a much larger metallic&nbsp;structure&nbsp;that will have the&nbsp;resilience&nbsp;to survive&nbsp;in an external setting. The conical base&nbsp;should surely be of a more natural material such as stone and needs to appear as if it is being driven&nbsp;out of the ground by the same energies that are bursting forth out of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">A Reflection upon Human Development (Sleeping Child)<\/h5>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholderThough we live and behave as if our own species is&nbsp;hugely superior&nbsp;to the rest of the natural world upon which we&nbsp;depend for our survival,&nbsp;we might more realistically be seen&nbsp;as one of the youngest, most foolish and selfishly destructive&nbsp;creatures that inhabit the earth.<\/p>\n<p>This work is intended to&nbsp;represent examples of&nbsp;the just born, still sleeping children&nbsp;of present humanity, all grasping&nbsp;upwards to some unseen&nbsp;and unknown, imagined advantage &#8211; a mother? the sun? nutrition? &#8211; while simultaneously attempting&nbsp;to ensure that their colleagues are defeated in their own quest&nbsp;to&nbsp;reach toward the goal above.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Life and Death<\/h5>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_2_placeholderMankind&#8217;s use of the square edged cross&nbsp;in both the East and West greatly predates Christianity in which, along with other religions, I have no&nbsp;interest of faith whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>The motif of this curved edged cross has repeatedly appeared in my imaginations over many years and&nbsp;I interpret&nbsp;this as&nbsp;a&nbsp;representation of&nbsp;the relationship between&nbsp;the life of symbolic mankind standing, arms outstretched and,&nbsp;(with unavoidable undertones of a gravestone), the ever present&nbsp;alternative of&nbsp;death.<\/p>\n<p>The spherical shapes convey the implication of gonads of either gender,&nbsp;these&nbsp;giving birth to&nbsp;brash young &nbsp;tendrils&nbsp;that&nbsp;lend support to the&nbsp;source of their life while also&nbsp;threatening to strangle and overwhelm the &nbsp;life and death that predates their&nbsp;own existence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Light bulb mobiles<\/h5>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_3_placeholderI have found an interest &#8211; if not almost a fascination &#8211; with light bulbs&nbsp;although as yet, I have not found quite how I would like to incorporate these into some art.&nbsp;&nbsp;Meanwhile, I have made large variety of mobiles which are visually enjoyable not only for the endless reflections they generate in a source of light but the&nbsp;meditative&nbsp;dance of their movements&nbsp;in anything other than still air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following items&nbsp;illustrate&nbsp;some of the different ideas I am contemplating&nbsp;or&nbsp;developing. Maquette for garden sculpture &#8216;Energies&#8217; This is a small model made with brass but intended to be developed into a much larger metallic&nbsp;structure&nbsp;that will have the&nbsp;resilience&nbsp;to survive&nbsp;in an external setting. The conical base&nbsp;should surely be of a more natural material such as stone and needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":201,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-554","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554\/revisions\/1683"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmyersart.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}