{"id":33576,"date":"2019-04-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33576"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:02:39","slug":"jessica-oreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/jessica-oreck\/","title":{"rendered":"jessica oreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33581\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33581\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JessicaOreck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JessicaOreck.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JessicaOreck-34x300.jpg 34w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I tend to think of myself less as an artist and more as a Bower Bird, compositing and arranging archipelagos of intricate nests.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Currently based in South Korea, American artist<a href=\"http:\/\/sentfromwhereiam.com\"> Jessica Oreck<\/a> makes multiple collage series, all of which live under the theme of <em>&#8220;Sent From Where I Am&#8221;<\/em>. This dreamy grouping, for example, is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/sentfromwhereiam.com\/work2018.html\">&#8220;Manila, Philippines : Collected November, 2018&#8221;<\/a>. It&#8217;s basically a mix &amp; match game using\u00a0faded historical figure flashcards she found in a dusty bookshop in a mall in Manila. LOVE. Here are Jessica&#8217;s words on why she does what she does&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I am enthralled by the objects and remnants that fall through the cracks &#8211; caught somewhere in limbo between belonging(s) and trash &#8211; the habitually forgotten residues of other people&#8217;s lives &#8230; The collages each engage directly with a sense of place. Every collection is comprised of materials gathered in a single location. Drawing on the limitations and precision of the imagery, the collages reveal a sort of palimpsest of ethos &#8211; a layering of mutating cultural vogues, the anonymous censorship of time, and my own socially muddied sense of self.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful. Happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I tend to think of myself less as an artist and more as a Bower Bird, compositing and arranging archipelagos of intricate nests.&#8221; Currently based in South Korea, American artist Jessica Oreck makes multiple collage series, all of which live under the theme of &#8220;Sent From Where I Am&#8221;. This dreamy grouping, for example, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33576"}],"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=33576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33584,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33576\/revisions\/33584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}