{"id":36466,"date":"2020-07-23T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=36466"},"modified":"2020-07-22T07:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:16:52","slug":"morel-doucet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/23\/morel-doucet\/","title":{"rendered":"morel doucet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36490\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36490\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/moreldoucet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"7811\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Gasp!<\/em> These porcelain pieces are the gorgeous work of Miami based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moreldoucet.com\/\">Morel Doucet<\/a>. I could go on and on and ON describing what I love about these pieces &#8230; like the children with safety pin heads, Nefertiti\u00a0covered in delicate leaves, or those tiny hands and feet popping out of seashells, but I&#8217;ll hand it over to Morel because his artist statement says it all:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><em>&#8220;My work explores the cultural disparity of self- realization, assimilation, and transnational identity as a Haitian immigrant. Using direct or implied human figures, I explore narratives of vulnerability, isolation, and alienation within various cultures across the globe. Within the vocabulary of indigenous art and my dreams, I create whimsical forms resulting in a diary of self-mythology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>These exchanges allude to a larger conversation about sea-level rise, environmental pollution, and the displacement between descendants of the African diaspora, and their physical environments. Through intensive detailed labor, my work mimics the current state of Black fragility. I employ ceramics, illustrations, and prints to examine the realities of climate- gentrification, migration, and displacement within the Black diaspora communities. In addressing these issues, I merge my Afro-Caribbean culture with flora and fauna and draw from the concerns of the collective consciousness of my community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>In my quest to illustrate the impact of climate-gentrification, I present work with visual impact and sensitivity \u2014and draw inspiration from the indigenous cultures of the Amazon, Aboriginal people of Australia, and the Yoruba tribe of West Africa.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gasp! These porcelain pieces are the gorgeous work of Miami based artist Morel Doucet. I could go on and on and ON describing what I love about these pieces &#8230; like the children with safety pin heads, Nefertiti\u00a0covered in delicate leaves, or those tiny hands and feet popping out of seashells, but I&#8217;ll hand it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466"}],"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=36466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36491,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions\/36491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}