{"id":34924,"date":"2019-11-15T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=34924"},"modified":"2019-11-14T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:36:28","slug":"jessica-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/15\/jessica-sinks\/","title":{"rendered":"jessica sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=34925\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34925\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JessicaSinks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just discovered the weird &#8216;n wonderful collages of Dallas based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upriseart.com\/art-under-800\/artists\/jessica-sinks\">Jessica Sinks<\/a>. Those shoes, that bird boy&#8230; I&#8217;m both smitten and a teeny bit scared. I love these cut and pasted pieces, but I have to say, Jessica&#8217;s artist statement seals the deal on my new collage crush:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Her works center around visual puns and iconic images that play off found materials to create flat and often comedic figures. Sinks\u2019 cutouts began as an alternative to sketching and nod to the silhouettes and performativity of Javanese shadow puppet theater. With a background in conservation, she has described the act of cutting up books as a \u201ctantalizingly forbidden act.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Oooh,<\/em> I know all about that tantalizing act!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered the weird &#8216;n wonderful collages of Dallas based artist Jessica Sinks. Those shoes, that bird boy&#8230; I&#8217;m both smitten and a teeny bit scared. I love these cut and pasted pieces, but I have to say, Jessica&#8217;s artist statement seals the deal on my new collage crush: Her works center around visual [&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\/34924"}],"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=34924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34928,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34924\/revisions\/34928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}