{"id":1230,"date":"2023-02-17T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2023-02-17T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:04:50","slug":"sheilas-weekly-update-17-feb-23-elephants-and-not-just-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/weekly-updates\/sheilas-weekly-update-17-feb-23-elephants-and-not-just-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila&#8217;s weekly update 17 Feb 23: Elephants! and not just in the room . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many little things do we just pass by without a second glance? Too many I suspect. I spotted a little elephant on one of my walks &#8211; didn&#8217;t think too much about it until this week. I took a closer look, so many ways to read its presence in the landscape. Protector? Symbol of wisdom of one passed, a light in the dark? I&#8217;m exploring ways to convey some of that in my work. I have been really inspired by the group crit sessions in the personal practice course I&#8217;m doing with Contemporary Art Academy this week. It&#8217;s really helping me make sense of what I am doing and how I can relate it to some more universal themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheila&#039;s weekly update: Elephants - not just in the room\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1C-BKXoF_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many little things do we just pass by without a second glance? Too many I suspect. I spotted a little elephant on one of my walks &#8211; didn&#8217;t think too much about it until this week. I took a closer look, so many ways to read its presence in the landscape. Protector? Symbol of wisdom of one passed, a light in the dark? I&#8217;m exploring ways to convey some of that in my work. I have been really inspired by the group crit sessions in the personal practice course I&#8217;m doing with Contemporary Art Academy this week. It&#8217;s really helping me make sense of what I am doing and how I can relate it to some more universal themes.<\/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":[18],"tags":[23,102,45,42,50],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-updates","tag-contemporaryartist","tag-elephants","tag-art-2","tag-artisttalking","tag-contemporaryart-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}