{"id":1998,"date":"2009-01-21T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T00:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2009-01-21T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T00:07:20","slug":"red-delicious-26-and-inspiring-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/red-delicious-26-and-inspiring-art\/","title":{"rendered":"red delicious #26 and inspiring art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling down in the dumps last night. Really down in the dumps. The next couple months are going to be very busy and confusing for me and I&#8217;m having that irrational fear like I&#8217;m never going to make art again. But today I received the gift of inspiration. A link to an article in the New York Times sent from my friend Visnu on the artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/28\/arts\/design\/28kino.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">Tara Donovan<\/a>. She makes minimalism-inspired sculptures out of common objects like cups, pencils, tape, and glass. They are absolutely beautiful; quiet and graceful. She builds structures using the repeating shapes of her chosen material. I just got rid of a bunch of pvc tubing that I had a similar project in mind for. I just needed to clear out the studio. I kind of regret it now. Anywhooo&#8230; Her work is inspiring to me and it got me concentrating more on my <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/sets\/72157608546232028\/\">busy idleness drawings<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been slowly working on them, but I&#8217;ve been more idle than busy when it comes to the drawings.<\/p>\n<p>I toast to Tara with this apple! It shines red with the passions for creating beauty out of the very simple.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3204004689\/\" title=\"red delicious by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3454\/3204004689_bddf7c1226.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"413\" alt=\"red delicious\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling down in the dumps last night. Really down in the dumps. The next couple months are going to be very busy and confusing for me and I&#8217;m having that irrational fear like I&#8217;m never going to make art again. But today I received the gift of inspiration. A link to an article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}