{"id":25095,"date":"2016-04-04T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=25095"},"modified":"2016-04-04T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:34:31","slug":"lorna-simpson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/04\/lorna-simpson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"lorna simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lornasimpson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lornasimpson.jpg\" alt=\"lornasimpson\" width=\"584\" height=\"3803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lornasimpson.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lornasimpson-46x300.jpg 46w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Oh.<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsimpsonstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lorna Simpson.<\/a>\u00a0Her hair collages make my collage-loving heart skip a beat &#8230; brilliant, beautiful, and this time a little bit rocky. These pieces are part of a series of 12,\u00a0exclusive to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/13403876\/lorna-simpson-artist-hair-ebony-collages-new-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vogue.com<\/a>. Here is Vogue&#8217;s\u00a0description of this fantastic work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Now, her subjects are more liberated than ever&#8230; in a new exclusive series for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/13403876\/lorna-simpson-artist-hair-ebony-collages-new-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vogue.com<\/a>, Simpson has lifted the faces of 12 women from \u201cvery mundane\u201d \u201960s and \u201970s advertisements in Ebony magazine\u2014the culture and politics monthly she grew up with that \u201cinformed my sense of thinking about being black in America\u201d\u2014and paired them with illustrations of geological and astrological forms from a 1931 textbook. Stripped of any fundamental context, the women provide no origin story and no identifying characteristics. The geometric shapes replacing their hair weren\u2019t chosen for their resemblance to, say, Nefertiti\u2019s crown or Erykah Badu\u2019s emerald head wrap\u2014references that may spring to mind as you look at them\u2014but rather for the same reason you might cut, color, or change the texture of your hair: simply because, says Simpson, \u201cI thought they were beautiful.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Sigh<\/em>&#8230; I do too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh.\u00a0Lorna Simpson.\u00a0Her hair collages make my collage-loving heart skip a beat &#8230; brilliant, beautiful, and this time a little bit rocky. These pieces are part of a series of 12,\u00a0exclusive to\u00a0Vogue.com. Here is Vogue&#8217;s\u00a0description of this fantastic work: Now, her subjects are more liberated than ever&#8230; in a new exclusive series for Vogue.com, Simpson has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095"}],"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=25095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25105,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions\/25105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}