{"id":236,"date":"2007-11-30T00:12:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T08:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2016-01-27T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T05:19:12","slug":"value-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Value of art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most people feel some level of stress about Christmas gifts. This year during the month of November, I have been making Christmas presents for most of my immediate family members. Since I don’t have to work, being on a one year maternity leave, I wanted to use my talents to bless those closest to me. I sewed leaves on a shirt for my sister.<\/p>\n

I was working on a painting but wasn’t sure who it was for. I was feeling quite stressed during the process of making the painting. I had the unfinished painting up so I could look at it and think about it. One time I looked up and saw it and thought, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” And at that moment, I knew that would be for my niece. Later that day I heard that she wants to “make collages like her Aunt Nancy,” and to be called an artist. I felt close to God because of that encounter, unlike anything I’ve felt for a long time.<\/p>\n

I struggle with how to deal with any kind of pressure or obligation and my art – people often ask me if I can make something for them (like when I made my own purse or shirt with birds sewn on it). Generally the process I go through to make something takes so much out of me, I never want to do it again! I find the concept of accepting money for something I’ve made very difficult. Even for gifts, it’s hard to believe that these pieces of art are “worth enough” to replace a commercially purchased gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people feel some level of stress about Christmas gifts. This year during the month of November, I have been making Christmas presents for most of my immediate family members. Since I don’t have to work, being on a one … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[273,299,389],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-faith-2","tag-christmas","tag-commercialization-of-art","tag-encounter-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}