{"id":37126,"date":"2020-11-05T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=37126"},"modified":"2020-11-05T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:08:07","slug":"vanessa-barragao-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/05\/vanessa-barragao-2\/","title":{"rendered":"vanessa barrag\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/05\/vanessa-barragao-2\/vanessabarragao-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37130\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/VanessaBarragao.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4661\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh my <em>word.<\/em> Okay, let&#8217;s begin by saying, absolutely <em>everything<\/em> in the portfolio of Portuguese textile artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanessabarragao.com\/\">Vanessa Barrag\u00e3o<\/a> is mind-blowing. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/29\/vanessa-barragao\/\">wrote about her in 2018<\/a>, and have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vanessabarragao_work\/\">following<\/a> closely ever since. She is constantly creating new underwater wonders out of wool <em>&#8220;from the deadstock of the textile industry in Portugal&#8221;. <\/em>This insane 2019 installation, titled <em>&#8220;Coral Garden&#8221;<\/em>, involved months of crocheting and latch-hooking in order to bring this magical, colorful world to life. Here are Vanessa&#8217;s words about why she does what she does:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Global warming and pollution are destroying one of the most vital environments &#8211; the coral reefs &#8211; which are the heart of marine life. &#8220;The Coral Garden&#8221;, focuses on this issue. Vanessa believes in an up-cycling effort and conscious production methods as an attempt to fight this negative mindset and improve our planet&#8217;s health, creating her artworks with recycled materials and handmade techniques.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my word. Okay, let&#8217;s begin by saying, absolutely everything in the portfolio of Portuguese textile artist Vanessa Barrag\u00e3o is mind-blowing. I wrote about her in 2018, and have been following closely ever since. She is constantly creating new underwater wonders out of wool &#8220;from the deadstock of the textile industry in Portugal&#8221;. This insane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,285,493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37126"}],"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=37126"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37134,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37126\/revisions\/37134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}