{"id":53452,"date":"2020-11-06T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=53452"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:44:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:44:51","slug":"plastic-waves-x-hugh-kretschmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/53452","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Waves x Hugh Kretschmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tumblr_738cef291abee77dbd8ecbaab7eb4505_626ca4d2_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic Waves x Hugh Kretschmer\" width=\"650\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tumblr_738cef291abee77dbd8ecbaab7eb4505_626ca4d2_1280.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tumblr_738cef291abee77dbd8ecbaab7eb4505_626ca4d2_1280-470x704.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tumblr_738cef291abee77dbd8ecbaab7eb4505_626ca4d2_1280-600x899.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tumblr_61a245236e94b2985c8f5b7361e65567_e1fb8bad_500.gif\" alt=\"Plastic Waves x Hugh Kretschmer\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plastic Waves by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hughkretschmer.net\/\">Hugh Kretschmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ARTIST STATEMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plastic \u201cWaves\u201d is a chapter of my ongoing project, Mirage\u2014 a visual commentary on the effects of human behavior on our natural water systems. Each image is constructed using recycled, repurposed or rejected plastic; a foreign element that is now, unfortunately, ever-present in our natural water systems. For these examples, I used recycled garbage bags.<\/p>\n<p>My intent is to engage my audience with the alluring beauty of these images. But upon closer examination a deeper awareness of their intended message is revealed; a future where bodies of water, in their purest form, may only be seen through artificial means\u2014 something like a museum diorama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aphotoeditor.com\/2020\/11\/05\/the-art-of-the-personal-project-hugh-kretschmer-2\/\">Via<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic Waves by Hugh Kretschmer. ARTIST STATEMENT &#8220;Plastic \u201cWaves\u201d is a chapter of my ongoing project, Mirage\u2014 a visual commentary on the effects of human behavior on our natural water systems. Each image is constructed using recycled, repurposed or rejected plastic; a foreign element that is now, unfortunately, ever-present in our natural water systems. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,19],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53463,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452\/revisions\/53463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}