{"id":30245,"date":"2017-12-05T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=30245"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:02:57","slug":"sheila-hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/05\/sheila-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"sheila hicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=30247\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30247\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheila_hicks_venice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheila_hicks_venice.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheila_hicks_venice-271x1024.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8yk5bxjzLGw\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh my word. This stunning fiber based installation was one of my favorite things at the Venice Biennale this past summer, and yes, it probably has something to do with my current obsession with pom poms. Granted, these are not pom poms at all. They are &#8220;pigmented acrylic fibre&#8221; wrangled into large soft orbs with some kind of synthetic netting! This gorgeous piece <em>{that you were NOT allowed to jump on even if you really wanted to}<\/em> was part of the &#8220;Color Pavilion&#8221; at the Arsenale, and is the work of American-born, Paris based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilahicks.com\/\">Sheila Hicks<\/a>. Watch the video above to see Sheila talking about this piece&#8230; so beautiful on so many levels.<\/p>\n<p><em>ps. a bit of proof, basically to remind myself that I really was there &#8211; because sometimes it feels more like a crazy dream.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=30246\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30246\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheila_hicks_proof.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheila_hicks_proof.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheila_hicks_proof-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my word. This stunning fiber based installation was one of my favorite things at the Venice Biennale this past summer, and yes, it probably has something to do with my current obsession with pom poms. Granted, these are not pom poms at all. They are &#8220;pigmented acrylic fibre&#8221; wrangled into large soft orbs with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,3,285,12,493],"tags":[814,210,794,815,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245"}],"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=30245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30250,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245\/revisions\/30250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}