{"id":26718,"date":"2016-09-14T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=26718"},"modified":"2016-09-14T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:43:52","slug":"courtney-mattison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/14\/courtney-mattison\/","title":{"rendered":"courtney mattison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/courtneymattison.com\/ourchangingseas-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/courtneymattison-1.jpg\" alt=\"courtneymattison\" width=\"584\" height=\"3373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/courtneymattison-1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/courtneymattison-1-52x300.jpg 52w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh my. Beautiful and sad all in one glance. This is a glazed stoneware and\u00a0porcelain\u00a0installation\u00a0by American artist\/ocean advocate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/courtneymattison.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Mattison<\/a>, titled\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/courtneymattison.com\/ourchangingseas-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Our Changing Seas III&#8221;<\/a>. <\/em>Here are her eloquent and inspiring words about this work\u00a0and her mission:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;This piece explores the rapid transition that corals throughout the tropics and subtropics are making from healthy, colorful and diverse to sickened and bleached as a result of human-caused climate change, which is putting coral reefs into the proverbial \u201ceye of the storm.\u201d At its heart, this piece celebrates my favorite aesthetic aspects of a healthy coral reef surrounded by the sterile white skeletons of bleached corals swirling like the rotating winds of a cyclone. There is still time for corals to recover even from the point of bleaching if we act quickly to decrease the threats we impose.\u00a0Perhaps if my work can influence viewers to appreciate the fragile beauty of our endangered coral reef ecosystems, we will act more wholeheartedly to help them recover and even thrive.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><em>{Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/marieladinardo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mariela Di Nardo<\/a> for pointing me to this work.}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my. Beautiful and sad all in one glance. This is a glazed stoneware and\u00a0porcelain\u00a0installation\u00a0by American artist\/ocean advocate\u00a0Courtney Mattison, titled\u00a0&#8220;Our Changing Seas III&#8221;. Here are her eloquent and inspiring words about this work\u00a0and her mission: &#8220;This piece explores the rapid transition that corals throughout the tropics and subtropics are making from healthy, colorful and diverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,3,596,285],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718"}],"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=26718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26734,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718\/revisions\/26734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}