{"id":4180,"date":"2015-04-25T16:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T23:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2015-04-25T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T23:49:21","slug":"materiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/materiality\/","title":{"rendered":"materiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00c2\u00a0Walter Darby Bannard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/aphorismsforartists.com\" target=\"_blank\">Aphorisms for Artists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Art is in the materials. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look for it somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>When rhetoric elevates the spiritual over the material, art slips away and hides. As Oscar Wilde said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Good art makes the material and the spiritual the same thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Materiality is coming up. Both sides of it. That the material object is the whole thing. And that it is not the whole thing. <\/p>\n<p>Sort of beside myself discovering <a href=\"http:\/\/crochetcoralreef.org\/contributors\/margaret_wertheim.php\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/christine-wertheim.com\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Wertheim<\/a>. Going to crochet me some hyperbolic structures. Embrace my subjectivity. And the domestic arts I was taught. <\/p>\n<p>Turning point: when everything you thought was wrong is right. Everything you thought was bad is good. Everything you thought was Less Than is The Way. <\/p>\n<p>Also reading: Rings of Saturn, with its catalogues of objects (some alive, some dead, some human, some not). <\/p>\n<p>Feel so happy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00c2\u00a0Walter Darby Bannard&#8217;s Aphorisms for Artists: Art is in the materials. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look for it somewhere else. When rhetoric elevates the spiritual over the material, art slips away and hides. As Oscar Wilde said,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,124,125,123,126],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crochet","tag-dualism","tag-materiality","tag-philosophy","tag-wertheim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}