{"id":1752,"date":"2010-09-18T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T16:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2011-02-22T15:33:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:33:55","slug":"confounded-by-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"Confounded by buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have thousands of buttons that I want to use to create some paintings, that part is great.\u00a0 What isn&#8217;t great is that I am hindered by the lack of a subject.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve thought about how we have become so disconnected from our clothes and their manufacture.\u00a0 I was reminded of this while looking at an old photography of my grandmother darning a sock.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve considered also the history of textiles and it&#8217;s relationship to women, but am I right to tackle that? \u00a0 I do have one image in mind that I will likely do to help develop how I will use the buttons and the amount of effort required, which I suspect will be considerable.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1753\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wkoopmans-2792.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1753\" title=\"wkoopmans-2792\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wkoopmans-2792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wkoopmans-2792.jpg 532w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wkoopmans-2792-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have thousands of buttons that I want to use to create some paintings, that part is great.\u00a0 What isn&#8217;t great is that I am hindered by the lack of a subject.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve thought about how we have become so disconnected from our clothes and their manufacture.\u00a0 I was reminded of this while looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[84,86],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-observations","tag-art","tag-button"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}