{"id":82,"date":"2012-02-23T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2013-01-17T21:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T21:37:02","slug":"nancy-henry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/nancy-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_655\" style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"size-full wp-image-655 \" title=\"Vital Details\" src=\"https:\/\/uuk.kxe.temporary.site\/website_0e10ecbc\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VitalDetails_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VitalDetails_2.jpg 644w, https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VitalDetails_2-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Vital Details #2&#8217; &#8211; 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>&#8220;There is an expectation that artists should only wear one hat, otherwise they will be perceived as uncommitted.&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 330px;\">There is an expectation and I don\u2019t know where it comes from that artists should only wear one hat, otherwise they will be perceived as uncommitted. Multi-disciplined artists are viewed with suspicion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 330px;\">A strong link exists between obsession and creativity. Although many good works have been a product of obsession this is not the only way to achieve results.<br \/>\nWhile sticking to what you know is sometimes a sensible option it will usually result in producing variations of the same work.<br \/>\nSometimes if something is selling well this is a good strategy. However this narrow view worries me because it ultimately hampers creativity and restricts diversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 330px;\">&#8216;Vital Details #2&#8217; is based on another computer painting &#8216;The Vital Stretch #5&#8217; that was chosen for the first Birmingham Open exhibition in 2007 at the BM&amp;AG.<br \/>\nSo sticking to what I know, I\u2019ve reworked some of the elements and dispensed with the rest, restricting diversity.<br \/>\nI now prefer this version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is an expectation that artists should only wear one hat, otherwise they will be perceived as uncommitted.&#8221; There is an expectation and I don\u2019t know where it comes from that artists should only wear one hat, otherwise they will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"1r-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}