{"id":19536,"date":"2021-03-18T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=19536"},"modified":"2021-03-18T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:50:23","slug":"directors-picks-grace-against-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/directors-picks-grace-against-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Director’s Picks: Grace against uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s happening\u2026 Spring is on its way! Maybe you\u2019ve seen the odd daffodil emerging as daylight extends just that little bit more each day. Freshness, effervescence, hope! These are some of the themes that inspired the current selection of Director\u2019s Picks. In their own unique ways, each piece seems to touch on the human duality of propelling forward, whilst reflecting on the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day of fog has as much beauty as a day of clarity… In fact, it\u2019s the added texture of enigma, risk, and possibility that\u2019s kept our hearts aloft, ready for new challenges and surprises. This is wittily captured in Rosemary Burn\u2019s \u2018Vitamin C\u2019, where even the citric fizz of an energy tablet possesses its own mystery.. A real storm in a tumbler!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More abstractly, Heini King and Jan Valik render landscapes leaden with energies not always visible to the naked eye. Sensorial hauntings sweep through their work, etching traces of strange light amongst clarifying patches of blue sky and greenery. Elsewhere, Kate Cunningham\u2019s gorgeous skyscape captures the mythological majesty of clouds, whilst Carlos San Milan\u2019s opaline seascape paints a cove of dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you see figures, they\u2019re often contemplating. Sam Wood\u2019s \u2018Looking Back in Red\u2019, uses colour to mark contrasts between the past and future. Tentative hands cling to the self for security, as the figure is both separate from, and invested in, the landscape ahead. Alternatively, William Fice\u2019s \u2018Walking Figure\u2019 strides forth with an almost experimental confidence against the swirling, glowing background. Grace against uncertainty \u2013 this is how we\u2019re hoping to move forward now…\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s happening\u2026 Spring is on its way! Maybe you\u2019ve seen the odd daffodil emerging as daylight extends just that little bit more each day. Freshness, effervescence, hope! These are some of the themes that inspired the current selection of Director\u2019s Picks. In their own unique ways, each piece seems to touch on the human duality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curated-collections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19550,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions\/19550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}