{"id":804,"date":"2022-11-02T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T03:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/?p=804"},"modified":"2022-11-02T20:28:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T03:28:50","slug":"update-title-protest-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/2022\/11\/02\/update-title-protest-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Update Title. Protest signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems I forgot to finish the artist’s statement…<\/p>\n

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(copying this from the email to guide me when I get around to writing it later haha):<\/p>\n

This piece had the goal of showing the protests of many polarizing topics as chaotic and was almost making fun of them in a way. I first just painted many protest signs\u2014copying where they were in the image from actual protests\u2014then I gradually painted over them and abstracted them. The first half was pretty stressful for me and actually got me crying and made my stomach hurt. I think this is because I found myself acting as a mediator between conflicting opinions a lot as a student leader at TWU, and it was so stressful to be in the middle of arguments in a space that I was supposed to foster as a welcoming environment. It was really hard with covid because student leaders were made to ask peers to put masks on and there was a lot of tension between people, and student leaders who would rebel, etc.<\/div>\n
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I don’t feel much of that anymore. I think this painting was a part of my introspecting and healing process. That, along with having rest from people in summer break, and the mask mandates being removed.<\/div>\n
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It seems I forgot to finish the artist’s statement…   (copying this from the email to guide me when I get around to writing it later haha): This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1490,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,62],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art321","category-art421","tag-polarization-harmony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/rileyrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}