{"id":28096,"date":"2017-03-06T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=28096"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:37:55","slug":"crystal-morey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/crystal-morey\/","title":{"rendered":"crystal morey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/crystal-morey\/crystalmorey\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28097\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/crystalmorey.jpg\" alt=\"crystalmorey\" width=\"584\" height=\"3960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/crystalmorey.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/crystalmorey-151x1024.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fierce but fragile &#8230; beautiful, elegant, porcelain creatures by American artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystalmorey.com\/\">Crystal\u00a0Morey<\/a>. Here are her words about why she creates what she creates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;As a species, we sit at a pivotal moment, faced with monumental questions leading to difficult, uncertain answers. My figures exist on this frontier, absorbed in their own feelings of stress, anxiety and ambivalence.\u00a0Sculpted from the silken white earth of porcelain, I see these delicate figures as containing power \u2013 as modern talismans and precious telling objects. They are here to remind us of our current trajectory and potential for destruction and downfall.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>{Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandamichellesmith.com\/\">ceramicist Amanda Smith<\/a> for pointing me to this lovely work}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fierce but fragile &#8230; beautiful, elegant, porcelain creatures by American artist\u00a0Crystal\u00a0Morey. Here are her words about why she creates what she creates: &#8220;As a species, we sit at a pivotal moment, faced with monumental questions leading to difficult, uncertain answers. My figures exist on this frontier, absorbed in their own feelings of stress, anxiety and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096"}],"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=28096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28110,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096\/revisions\/28110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}