{"id":24496,"date":"2016-01-19T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=24496"},"modified":"2016-01-18T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T23:14:15","slug":"koo-seong-youn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/19\/koo-seong-youn\/","title":{"rendered":"koo seong youn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KooSeongYoun.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24498\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KooSeongYoun.jpg\" alt=\"KooSeongYoun\" width=\"584\" height=\"3975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KooSeongYoun.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KooSeongYoun-44x300.jpg 44w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think I could love peonies any more than I already do&#8230; until\u00a0Korean artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galleryhuue.com\/koo-seong-youn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Koo Seong Youn<\/a>\u00a0made them out of sweet, sticky, colorful\u00a0candy! Here&#8217;s a little bit about her still life photography series, titled &lt;Candy&gt;, and why she chose\u00a0peonies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&lt;Candy&gt; series derives its motif from the peony folk painting. Peony is known as symbol of wealth and honour. Thus folding screens of peony have been set up in the wedding hall or banquet hall. Small painting of peony was hung on the wall of newly-married couple\u2019s room. In the past they might prayed for prosperous things to this splendid flower painting. Now they seem to be very naive when they depended on not a strong and timeless object like gold or sun, but on the transient flowers, as even though they are very dazzling and beautiful in full bloom, they soon disappear without any trace. Secular accomplishment, like momentary sweet but shortly melting candy in the end of the tongue, is actually futile.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>{via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designsponge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Design*Sponge<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think I could love peonies any more than I already do&#8230; until\u00a0Korean artist Koo Seong Youn\u00a0made them out of sweet, sticky, colorful\u00a0candy! Here&#8217;s a little bit about her still life photography series, titled &lt;Candy&gt;, and why she chose\u00a0peonies: &lt;Candy&gt; series derives its motif from the peony folk painting. Peony is known as symbol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,43,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496"}],"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=24496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24499,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions\/24499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}