{"id":4817,"date":"2011-03-11T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/so-painting-hasnt-been-going-well-lately-and-ive\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:56:29","slug":"so-painting-hasnt-been-going-well-lately-and-ive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/so-painting-hasnt-been-going-well-lately-and-ive\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4817 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\/2011\/03\/11\/so-painting-hasnt-been-going-well-lately-and-ive\/attachment\/4818\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhwe3nGjvw1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhwe3nGjvw1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhwe3nGjvw1qcztaao1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhwe3nGjvw1qcztaao1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/so-painting-hasnt-been-going-well-lately-and-ive\/attachment\/4819\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhwe3nGjvw1qcztaao2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhwe3nGjvw1qcztaao2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhwe3nGjvw1qcztaao2_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhwe3nGjvw1qcztaao2_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>So painting hasn&rsquo;t been going well lately and I&rsquo;ve been trying to find other ways to make art. I&rsquo;ve been thinking a lot about sculpture, but the problem with the world of three dimensions is that Nature got there first and totally owns the field. I keep finding these organic structures that are as beautiful and poetic and rich with the capacity for metaphor as any sculpture I&rsquo;ve ever seen or could ever hope to make myself.<\/p>\n<p>Like these&hellip;things. They&rsquo;re essentially just knots of flotsam that got snagged on branches when the floods came: mostly dead leaves and grass, knitted together into these strange little nests that are strong enough to withstand the current but disintegrate when handled. I&rsquo;m totally obsessed with them. I try to think of ways to photograph one or recreate it or just claim it like a Duchampian readymade and I can think of plenty of art-historical precedents that I could use to justify whatever I wanted to do. But then again, there&rsquo;s a little voice in the back of my head saying: <em>&ldquo;Seriously, that is literally just a piece of crap.&quot;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So painting hasn&rsquo;t been going well lately and I&rsquo;ve been trying to find other ways to make art. I&rsquo;ve been thinking a lot about sculpture, but the problem with the world of three dimensions is that Nature got there first and totally owns the field. I keep finding these organic structures that are as beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/so-painting-hasnt-been-going-well-lately-and-ive\/\" 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":[26],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-photography","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","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=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}