{"id":25293,"date":"2016-04-25T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=25293"},"modified":"2016-04-25T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T01:23:00","slug":"lee-mckenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/lee-mckenna\/","title":{"rendered":"lee mckenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/lee-mckenna\/lee_mckenna\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25294\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lee_mckenna.jpg\" alt=\"lee_mckenna\" width=\"584\" height=\"4976\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, I can almost smell these&#8230; not the flowers&#8230; all of that beautiful old paper!\u00a0<em>Sigh.\u00a0<\/em>These collages by Australian artist <a href=\"http:\/\/leeamckenna.tumblr.com\/\">Lee\u00a0McKenna<\/a>\u00a0are like found paper treasures. Bits and pieces from various places all coming together to create a new visual story&#8230; and seriously, am I the only one who knows exactly what that old paper smells like!? Here, in Lee&#8217;s words, is a description of this work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My collages embrace the imperfection of old, used, discarded and damaged paper. These papers depict moments in time &#8211; often bearing marks and traces of a past life and the human hand. I \u2018rescue\u2019 these unwanted fragments, creating layers and building connections into some sort of new, elusive and unpredictable thing. The process is wholly tactile &#8211; nothing is digital. I like the restrictions that this creates&#8230; the hand-cutting and gluing down, the use of only original papers and ephemera. Elements are added or removed, or covered over and reworked. Ideas and narratives may emerge, but often a series is initiated through the acquisition of a certain type of raw material &#8211; an old photo album, a stash of old maps, a pile of old postcards.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Love.<\/p>\n<p><em>{Most of this work is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomgallery.com.au\/artists\/lee-mckenna\/\">available via Boom Gallery, Australia<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I can almost smell these&#8230; not the flowers&#8230; all of that beautiful old paper!\u00a0Sigh.\u00a0These collages by Australian artist Lee\u00a0McKenna\u00a0are like found paper treasures. Bits and pieces from various places all coming together to create a new visual story&#8230; and seriously, am I the only one who knows exactly what that old paper smells like!? [&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\/25293"}],"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=25293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25309,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25293\/revisions\/25309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}