{"id":6342,"date":"2020-07-19T05:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=6342"},"modified":"2020-07-19T05:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T05:47:54","slug":"paper-play-sanctuary-ii-flax-handmade-paper-by-pat-feeney-murrell","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?project=paper-play-sanctuary-ii-flax-handmade-paper-by-pat-feeney-murrell","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPaper Play Sanctuary II\u201d. flax handmade paper by PAT FEENEY MURRELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Having been parked at home since February 6 due to waiting for surgery and then being postponed as \u201cElective\u201d due to our all enveloping virus, it has been difficult to find where to escape to.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>No luck with the outdoors, except to keep away the rain which floods the basement studio; no luck with the upstairs, only the cat lives there; and thank God for her amusing presence!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>So, that left the one thing that I can always count on \u2013 the artist\u2019s image.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Whether it is body skin imagery, digital imagery twisted and turned, or paper imagery, usually in the form of cast human sculpture, it is always a path, a place, a haven in which to jiggle and twiggle forms and space, to play with textures, to imgine what it might be if pasted on some model\u2019s torso. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>So, this time it is an escape into \u201cpaper play\u201d, or what happens when various formations of handmade paper meet each other.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They don\u2019t play this way when being made by spraying pulp onto flat surfaces outdoors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This \u201cplay\u201d allows for overlays not even pasted down, color and form shifted from the model\u2019s body to a more painterly prospect.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In fact it is like returning to Painting, which is where I started.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is an interesting \u201csanctuary\u201d not visited in a long time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>So maybe the virus has some use after all!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been parked at home since February 6 due to waiting for surgery and then being postponed as \u201cElective\u201d due to our all enveloping virus, it has been difficult to find where to escape to.\u00a0 No luck with the outdoors, except to keep away the rain which floods the basement studio; no luck with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[67],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6342","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-sanctuary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/6342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6344,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/6342\/revisions\/6344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_category&post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_tag&post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}