{"id":27945,"date":"2017-02-17T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=27945"},"modified":"2017-02-11T20:51:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T04:51:48","slug":"patty-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/17\/patty-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"patty carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=27946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27946\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pattycarroll.jpg\" alt=\"pattycarroll\" width=\"584\" height=\"4140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fake\u00a0birds\u00a0camouflaging themselves perfectly in a sea of vintage wallpaper. Gorgeous, and very cleverly titled&#8230; \u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pattycarroll.com\/still-lies\/\">Flora and Fauxna<\/a>&#8220;. So good. This is the latest series by American artist, and photography professor, <a href=\"http:\/\/pattycarroll.com\/\">Patty Carroll<\/a>. Here is part of her statement about this work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Since the 1900\u2019s \u201cbird\u201d has been used as slang to refer to women, often materially obsessed yet physically beautiful women &#8230; In their natural habitat, birds camouflage themselves in their tree homes, they sing, but remain invisible as they go about their business of feeding, fending off predators and teaching their young. Their camouflage is survival. In these still-life photographs, colorful fabric, artificial flowers and other household baubles create a sumptuous, patterned, and ornate world. This world mirrors\u00a0the home life of birds in nature while symbolizing the nesting instincts of women whose homes are a sanctuary of pride and obsession.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake\u00a0birds\u00a0camouflaging themselves perfectly in a sea of vintage wallpaper. Gorgeous, and very cleverly titled&#8230; \u00a0&#8220;Flora and Fauxna&#8220;. So good. This is the latest series by American artist, and photography professor, Patty Carroll. Here is part of her statement about this work: &#8220;Since the 1900\u2019s \u201cbird\u201d has been used as slang to refer to women, often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,43,30],"tags":[129,769,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27945"}],"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=27945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27947,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27945\/revisions\/27947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}