{"id":444,"date":"2019-09-29T23:59:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/?p=444"},"modified":"2019-10-23T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:52:55","slug":"a-portrayal-in-conflict-and-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/2019\/09\/29\/a-portrayal-in-conflict-and-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Portrayal in Conflict and Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the secret to a happy life?<\/p>\n<p>Many have asked this question in striving for happiness. And there are many, many answers; each as unique to the person who asks as to the person who answers. One thought is to find balance in one&#8217;s life. This at least is the answer the artist has come to herself and set out to portray balance in a piece of artwork.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-441\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-441\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2019\/10\/Full-Shot-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2019\/10\/Full-Shot-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2019\/10\/Full-Shot-768x954.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2019\/10\/Full-Shot-824x1024.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A full view of the sculpture, including the specialized lighting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over time Built to Grow has developed from one idea to the next, always with balance in mind. In its final form, of paper, wire, and light, it grapples with the larger question of natural versus man made.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-440\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2019\/10\/Detail-Join-e1571845622285-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2019\/10\/Detail-Join-e1571845622285-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2019\/10\/Detail-Join-e1571845622285-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image of the join between rings and the flowing quality of the design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the secret to a happy life? Many have asked this question in striving for happiness. And there are many, many answers; each as unique to the person who asks as to the person who answers. One thought is to find balance in one&#8217;s life. This at least is the answer the artist has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/2019\/09\/29\/a-portrayal-in-conflict-and-balance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Portrayal in Conflict and Balance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-works","category-from-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}