{"id":25972,"date":"2016-06-29T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=25972"},"modified":"2016-06-29T14:26:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T21:26:25","slug":"jeanne-heifetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/jeanne-heifetz\/","title":{"rendered":"jeanne heifetz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/jeanne-heifetz\/jeanneheifetz-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25976\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jeanneheifetz-1.jpg\" alt=\"jeanneheifetz\" width=\"584\" height=\"4637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jeanneheifetz-1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jeanneheifetz-1-129x1024.jpg 129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intricate ink drawings\u00a0on gorgeous dyed paper&#8230; all of these pieces are from a series, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanneheifetz.com\/there-is-no-road\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;There Is No Road&#8221;<\/em><\/a> by\u00a0American artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanneheifetz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanne\u00a0Heifetz<\/a>. I absolutely love her statement about this work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; As a child, I was always afraid of making the wrong decision. Selecting from many possible options was torture unless I could find a convincing rationale for my choice, some external justification beyond my own desire. Fear made me superstitious. I enlisted numerology, mythology, arcane patterns of all sorts to confirm the \u201crightness\u201d of my decisions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This body of work confronts decision-making head on. Still craving a system, I borrow one from nature: Plateau\u2019s laws, which govern the branching and growth of many natural forms. Within that system, I improvise, lighting out for the territory without a map. Each drawing grows by slow accretion as I allow myself (or force myself) to make hundreds of tiny sequential decisions&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So. Good. What a beautiful challenge to give herself&#8230; as are the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intricate ink drawings\u00a0on gorgeous dyed paper&#8230; all of these pieces are from a series, titled &#8220;There Is No Road&#8221; by\u00a0American artist\u00a0Jeanne\u00a0Heifetz. I absolutely love her statement about this work: &#8220;&#8230; As a child, I was always afraid of making the wrong decision. Selecting from many possible options was torture unless I could find a convincing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,112,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25972"}],"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=25972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26048,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25972\/revisions\/26048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}