{"id":27457,"date":"2016-12-13T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=27457"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:57:47","slug":"nicoletta-darita-de-la-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/nicoletta-darita-de-la-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"nicoletta dar\u00edta de la brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=27458\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27458\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nicolettadelabrown.jpg\" alt=\"nicolettadelabrown\" width=\"584\" height=\"3983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nicolettadelabrown.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nicolettadelabrown-44x300.jpg 44w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nicolettadelabrown-150x1024.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forgotten plastic bags that have been embroidered into unforgettable works of art. This is a series from 2013, titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolettadelabrown.com\/#\/alps\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;El Barrio Bodega&#8221;<\/a><\/em>, by Baltimore based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolettadelabrown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicoletta Dar\u00edta de la Brown<\/a>. Why embroidery on old bags? Here are Nicoletta&#8217;s words on exactly that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Embroidered corner-store grocery bags. Rescued from the gutter; blowing down the street like city tumbleweed. I reclaim and elevate what once was discarded by creating embellished art objects. Growing up in Brooklyn and Harlem I&#8217;d visit my block&#8217;s bodega daily, with pennies in hand, and leave with priceless treasures. More than just bags, they reflect a sense of pride for my neighborhood and are a symbol of my cultural identity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful, in every way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten plastic bags that have been embroidered into unforgettable works of art. This is a series from 2013, titled &#8220;El Barrio Bodega&#8221;, by Baltimore based artist Nicoletta Dar\u00edta de la Brown. Why embroidery on old bags? Here are Nicoletta&#8217;s words on exactly that: &#8220;Embroidered corner-store grocery bags. Rescued from the gutter; blowing down the street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457"}],"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=27457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27653,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457\/revisions\/27653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}