{"id":21934,"date":"2015-04-10T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=21934"},"modified":"2015-04-10T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T14:06:23","slug":"claire-pestaille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/claire-pestaille\/","title":{"rendered":"claire pestaille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ClairePestaille.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ClairePestaille.jpg\" alt=\"ClairePestaille\" width=\"584\" height=\"3292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ClairePestaille.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ClairePestaille-53x300.jpg 53w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few strategic folds in the pages of a fashion magazine, a little\u00a0peep hole or two, and voila, an eye-catching <em>{no pun intended}<\/em> series titled\u00a0&#8220;Belladonna&#8221; by UK based artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairepestaille.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Pestaille<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font_8\"><em><span class=\"color_13\">&#8220;Belladonna or deadly nightshade is a perennial herbaceous plant that produces toxic berries that if ingested can cause hallucinations delirium and sometimes death. In Italian, belladonna means beautiful woman, however historically women who wanted to look more attractive and seductive used the juices of the berry cosmetically as an eye drop to enlarge the size of the pupil. The use of the toxic belladonna as an eye drop resulted in visual distortions, increased heart rate and prolonged use caused blindness&#8230;<\/span><\/em><em><span class=\"color_13\">&#8220;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Simple. Clever. Strangely beautiful. Happy weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few strategic folds in the pages of a fashion magazine, a little\u00a0peep hole or two, and voila, an eye-catching {no pun intended} series titled\u00a0&#8220;Belladonna&#8221; by UK based artist\u00a0Claire Pestaille: &#8220;Belladonna or deadly nightshade is a perennial herbaceous plant that produces toxic berries that if ingested can cause hallucinations delirium and sometimes death. In Italian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21951,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21934\/revisions\/21951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}