{"id":32736,"date":"2018-11-09T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=32736"},"modified":"2018-11-08T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:35:06","slug":"pilar-mehlis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/09\/pilar-mehlis\/","title":{"rendered":"pilar mehlis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=32744\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32744\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32744\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pilar_mehlis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pilar_mehlis.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pilar_mehlis-220x1024.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful and bizarre&#8230; ah yes, one of my favorite combinations! I don&#8217;t know what I love best, but those delicate legs made from dress pattern tissue are at the top of my list. This is the work of Canada based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilarmehlis.ca\">Pilar Mehlis<\/a>, and this is why she puts legs on fish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;At the age of twelve I moved from La Paz,\u00a0Bolivia to Whitehorse,Yukon in the middle of winter.\u00a0<\/em><em>This move and life shift changed my perception of \u201cself\u201d in many ways and hence has become a focus in my work &#8230;\u00a0 In the last few years I have been exploring ideas of immigration and migrations both human and animal. The anthropomorphic forms: AntroFish (half human, half fish) and Ornithrope (Half human, half bird)\u00a0have\u00a0become\u00a0the perfect vessels for the exploration of these ideas. They serve as \u00a0\u201ccarriers\u201d of all the things I associate with immigration and migration.\u00a0I metaphorically recount these explorations through these\u00a0figures and tell the viewer the story I know best: my own.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lovely. Happy weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful and bizarre&#8230; ah yes, one of my favorite combinations! I don&#8217;t know what I love best, but those delicate legs made from dress pattern tissue are at the top of my list. This is the work of Canada based artist Pilar Mehlis, and this is why she puts legs on fish: &#8220;At the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736"}],"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=32736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32747,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736\/revisions\/32747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}