{"id":28493,"date":"2017-04-24T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=28493"},"modified":"2017-08-13T14:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T21:42:44","slug":"kate-sweeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/kate-sweeney\/","title":{"rendered":"kate sweeney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/kate-sweeney\/kate-sweeney\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28494\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kate-sweeney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4033\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was madly in love the\u00a0second I laid eyes on these <em>&#8220;Dolly Totems&#8221;<\/em> by American artist <a href=\"http:\/\/katesweeneyfineart.com\/\">Kate Sweeney<\/a> <em>{in collaboration with master printer Elizabeth Tapper}.<\/em>\u00a0Strange shapes, gorgeous colors, each beautiful hand-etched image\u00a0in exactly the right spot playing its part in the narrative&#8230; but what is the narrative? To be honest, I stared at these beauties for quite a while trying to guess, and then I found this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Dolly Totems are about states of doubt surrounding the creative urge. Innocent childlike forms have a sinister relationship with the dark side of creation and willful destruction.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A-ha! No wonder\u00a0I was drawn to them\u00a0<em>immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>{These pieces are available\u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/zinccontemporary.com\/kate-sweeney-gallery\/\">Zinc Contemporary, Seattle<\/a>.}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was madly in love the\u00a0second I laid eyes on these &#8220;Dolly Totems&#8221; by American artist Kate Sweeney {in collaboration with master printer Elizabeth Tapper}.\u00a0Strange shapes, gorgeous colors, each beautiful hand-etched image\u00a0in exactly the right spot playing its part in the narrative&#8230; but what is the narrative? To be honest, I stared at these beauties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493"}],"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=28493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29353,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493\/revisions\/29353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}