{"id":1375,"date":"2009-07-20T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2010-01-31T20:14:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T01:14:33","slug":"echos-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/echos-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Echos From the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been interested in sculpture since I was a young boy.  I remember collecting pot metal from the door handles of junked cars, melting it in a coffee can over a wood fire, and pouring the molten metal over bunches of dead grasses that I had collected.  The results were unique and visually interesting.  I also remember being fascinated with the furniture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendellcastle.com\/gallery-vintage\/index.html\">Wendell Castle<\/a> and the sculpture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/henry-moore\/explore\/\">Henry Moore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/servlet\/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&#038;artistid=1274\">Barbara Hepworth<\/a>, and later,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philamuseum.org\/collections\/results.html?searchTxt=Brancusi&#038;bSuggest=1&#038;searchNameID=&#038;searchClassID=&#038;searchOrigin=&#038;keySearch=+Search+&#038;page=1\">Constantin Brancusi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I never did much with my artistic inclinations, perhaps because I had seen, first-hand, how economically perilous the life of an artist was &#8211; both of my parents were artists.  But I did, in my late twenties, create this small piece, which I still have.  It was the first and, until my trip to Touchstone in 2007, my only sculpture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Old-Sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"Old Sculpture.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is sculpted from Jamaica Dogwood, a tropical hardwood, and has a river rock inside it.  The base is mahogany.  Both pieces of wood were collected in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Old-Sculpture1.jpg\" alt=\"Old Sculpture1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The piece is 9 1\/2&#8243; tall (including the base), 9&#8243; long, and 5 1\/2&#8243; in diameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been interested in sculpture since I was a young boy. I remember collecting pot metal from the door handles of junked cars, melting it in a coffee can over a wood fire, and pouring the molten metal over bunches <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/echos-from-the-past\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}