{"id":2916,"date":"2009-06-08T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T19:04:16","slug":"throwing-matches-on-pools-of-flamable-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/throwing-matches-on-pools-of-flamable-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing matches on pools of flamable inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is plenty around me to inspire me. What has been lacking were the matches to set them on fire. I have to be the one to strike the match.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to strike some matches today. Little ones because I am swamped with work, but I think it&#8217;s the little ones that are going to prove to be the most important to me. I am always going to be busy with things outside of my art practice. I have got to make something every single day. To my credit, when I opened my sketch book this morning, I found a surprising number of sketches that I&#8217;d done in the last couple of months. Work is happening, just not at the pace that I like. I need to start neglecting my husband and dog a bit. Start saying no to movies and start holing up in the garage. I&#8217;m got so many ideas swimming around in my head, I need to get them out or they are just going to fade.<\/p>\n<p>I like to search for disaster related images on google and gather them up. This weekend I thought about taking images and putting band-aids on them. A simple idea but one that feeds what I&#8217;m interested in; a sort of morbidly humorous look at the destruction of the world. So here they are, my sketches for today:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"band aid forestfire #1 by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3607623301\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3351\/3607623301_b9120cf106.jpg\" alt=\"band aid forestfire #1\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"bandaid clearcut by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3608438564\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3347\/3608438564_394c56266f.jpg\" alt=\"bandaid clearcut\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3607623375\/\" title=\"band aid forestfire #2 by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3565\/3607623375_f2b6965ce8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" alt=\"band aid forestfire #2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to get in the habit of posting something every day, to start talking about my work again in a public arena. I&#8217;m falling behind on the apple blogging, so maybe another project is the last thing I need. Maybe I should shoot for 4 posts a week about art ideas. I just know I need to start engaging in the world again when it comes to my art practice. I need my art blog to have something to do with art on a more regular basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is plenty around me to inspire me. What has been lacking were the matches to set them on fire. I have to be the one to strike the match. I&#8217;m trying to strike some matches today. Little ones because I am swamped with work, but I think it&#8217;s the little ones that are going [&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-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","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=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}