{"id":8188,"date":"2011-07-06T06:36:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=8188"},"modified":"2011-07-06T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:18:09","slug":"im-jealous-of-amy-greenan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/im-jealous-of-amy-greenan\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of amy greenan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/amygreenan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8199\" title=\"amygreenan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/amygreenan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"1523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/amygreenan.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/amygreenan-302x1023.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, houses. I love houses. I haven&#8217;t written about<em> any<\/em> in quite some time <em>{shocking, I know}<\/em>, but when I saw this lovely, and lonely, work by American artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amygreenan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Greenan<\/a>, well, I couldn&#8217;t control myself. I love Amy&#8217;s explanation of her paintings of abandoned homes, so instead of retelling the story, I&#8217;ll let her do it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Having grown up in what was an abandoned house when my parents purchased it, I find an irresistible affinity to these lost architectural souls. I realized, too, that the similarities between these houses and the human body and experience cannot be ignored. These places have a history in the same way we do. Memories are attached; they crumble in the same way the human body eventually does. They evoke all sorts of emotions and thoughts in me. When I paint each one, I can&#8217;t help but sense that I am bringing it a bit of its life back.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>{via <a href=\"http:\/\/arthound.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Hound<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, houses. I love houses. I haven&#8217;t written about any in quite some time {shocking, I know}, but when I saw this lovely, and lonely, work by American artist Amy Greenan, well, I couldn&#8217;t control myself. I love Amy&#8217;s explanation of her paintings of abandoned homes, so instead of retelling the story, I&#8217;ll let her [&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],"tags":[252,212,259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188"}],"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=8188"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8205,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188\/revisions\/8205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}