{"id":8907,"date":"2011-10-06T06:13:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2011-10-06T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T14:31:13","slug":"im-jealous-of-aili-schmeltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/im-jealous-of-aili-schmeltz\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of aili schmeltz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ailischmeltz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8908\" title=\"ailischmeltz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ailischmeltz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"2433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orange thread&#8230; mountains&#8230; gold&#8230; stripes&#8230; wood&#8230; STOP! I can&#8217;t take any more &#8211; it&#8217;s all so amazing! I <em>love <\/em>these sculptures by LA based artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ailischmeltz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aili Schmeltz<\/a>. Stunning, sharp geometric shapes married perfectly with soft organic elements. I was going to try to explain what this work is all about, but it will be so much easier to let Aili do it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>My most recent body of work examines my fascination and love\/hate relationship with the city of Los Angeles, where I currently live. Los Angeles has a sordid environmental history as a strange apocalyptic theme park. It&#8217;s plush, manicured landscape is a reminder of both a forced growth in an otherwise desert geography and as a monument to man&#8217;s ingenuity made possible by diverting an unfathomable amount of water from distant sources. I am fascinated by the hybridized structures and blatant artifice of the city in both it&#8217;s natural and man made environments where hill top homes float precariously overhead on earth that has a topographical complexity of embedded catastrophe.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>{I found the gold piece, titled quite appropriately, &#8220;Bling&#8221;, on the always fabulous\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designformankind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Design for Mankind<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange thread&#8230; mountains&#8230; gold&#8230; stripes&#8230; wood&#8230; STOP! I can&#8217;t take any more &#8211; it&#8217;s all so amazing! I love these sculptures by LA based artist\u00a0Aili Schmeltz. Stunning, sharp geometric shapes married perfectly with soft organic elements. I was going to try to explain what this work is all about, but it will be so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,58,285,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907"}],"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=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}