{"id":646,"date":"2020-04-09T23:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T03:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/?p=646"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:19:50","slug":"other-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/2020\/04\/09\/other-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Top-Edging-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"634\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Top-Edging-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/detail-top-edging\/\" class=\"wp-image-634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Top-Edging-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Top-Edging-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Top-Edging-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Top-Edging-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Top-Edging-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A detail photograph from the top of In Praise of Style. 4 x 6 inches. Watercolor paper, black ink, and black book cloth. 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Full-Book-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"636\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Full-Book-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wide-full-book\/\" class=\"wp-image-636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Full-Book-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Full-Book-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Full-Book-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Full-Book-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Full-Book-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A full image of In Praise of Style. 4 x 6 inches. Watercolor paper, black ink, and black book cloth. 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In these hard, stressful, and unusual times artwork can provide a window of escape. Most especially books and music, with their ability to create other worlds into which we can escape for hours. This artist&#8217;s book, <em>In Praise of Style<\/em>, combines both music and books in its ode to the song, <em>\u00c9lan<\/em>, by Nightwish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the song, <em>\u00c9lan<\/em>, please see this link to Nightwish&#8217;s official youtube video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-WsOaSUXRHE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-WsOaSUXRHE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more about this work, see <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/in-praise-of-style\/\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Front-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"635\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Front-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wide-front-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Front-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Front-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Front-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Front-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Wide-Front-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A front image of the tunnel book, In Praise of Style. 4 x 6 inches. Watercolor paper, black ink, and black book cloth. 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Bottom-Edging-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"639\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Bottom-Edging-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/detail-bottom-edging\/\" class=\"wp-image-639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Bottom-Edging-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Bottom-Edging-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Bottom-Edging-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Bottom-Edging-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/535\/2020\/04\/Detail-Bottom-Edging-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A close photo of the edging details and lettering for In Praise of Style. 4 x 6 inches. Watercolor paper, black ink, and black book cloth. 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these hard, stressful, and unusual times artwork can provide a window of escape. Most especially books and music, with their ability to create other worlds into which we can escape for hours. This artist&#8217;s book, In Praise of Style, combines both music and books in its ode to the song, \u00c9lan, by Nightwish. For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/2020\/04\/09\/other-worlds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Other Worlds&#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":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-works","category-from-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mwalker20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}