{"id":4271,"date":"2012-08-10T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/mural-in-progress-i-decided-to-get-out-of-the\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:13:01","slug":"mural-in-progress-i-decided-to-get-out-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/mural-in-progress-i-decided-to-get-out-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4271 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/mural-in-progress-i-decided-to-get-out-of-the\/attachment\/4272\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8jj0eTqxB1qcztaao1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8jj0eTqxB1qcztaao1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8jj0eTqxB1qcztaao1_r1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8jj0eTqxB1qcztaao1_r1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Mural in progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I decided to get out of the studio and begin a painting on a wall in a disused underground carpark. Progress is slow. This is partly because I find it tricky to get proportions right on a larger scale. But mainly it is because it is very dark and immensely creepy down there, three or four levels down, and I keep scaring the bejeezus out of myself. There are many strange sounds and unsettling signs of human presence &#8211; smashed lighting and used condoms, mainly, which just raises so many bewildering questions I don&rsquo;t want to know the answer to. And I&rsquo;m conscious of how vulnerable I am to attack by winos, or zombies. Or raptors.<\/p>\n<p>I realise these are mostly irrational fears, so I try to keep working and not flinch at every noise. But then yesterday three or four men actually did come thundering down the pedestrian stairwell and I instinctively turned off my torch and hid behind a pillar. I couldn&rsquo;t make out what they were saying, partly because of the cavernous echo, partly because I was standing near a noisy vent, and partly because I was having a goddamn heart attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they didn&rsquo;t notice me and left and no one got attacked. Unless they got eaten by something on their way out. But I&rsquo;m taking a day off today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mural in progress.\u00a0 I decided to get out of the studio and begin a painting on a wall in a disused underground carpark. Progress is slow. This is partly because I find it tricky to get proportions right on a larger scale. But mainly it is because it is very dark and immensely creepy down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/mural-in-progress-i-decided-to-get-out-of-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,48,433,26],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-art","tag-figure-study","tag-mural","tag-photography","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}