{"id":3375,"date":"2012-01-04T05:39:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2016-01-25T23:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T07:28:36","slug":"rainy-season-reflection-artists-statements-life-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"Rainy season reflection: artist&#8217;s statements, life, change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My paintings are still doing that dough thing, resting, while I am back to a busy work week. While I don&#8217;t think I will actually finish any of these new pieces in time for the show, I did manage to finish revising my artist&#8217;s statement again. It&#8217;s amazing how much work goes into wording it. Funny, I was doing this very same thing 7 years ago on January 3 &#8211; check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/2005\/01\/03\/emergence\/\">old post<\/a>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3376\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 604px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/meandLillia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3376 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/meandLillia.jpg\" alt=\"Mom and baby\" width=\"604\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/meandLillia.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/meandLillia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/meandLillia-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">My daughter and I<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was just thinking back to how much my life has changed since I had kids! Here is a <a title=\"painting\" href=\"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/30\/painting-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> from four years ago. Back then, I was just getting used to having an infant. I was proud to be up and dressed by noon, just in time for my daughter&#8217;s noon nap when I tried to spend a little bit of time doing a page in my art journal, then taking her for a walk in the rain in the ergo. We lived in Vancouver at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a typical winter day on the west coast: waking up my tiny children in what feels like the dead of night grayness so they can get ready for preschool. Heavy rain, so that I had to navigate the car like a tugboat along the highway. Stormy winds rustling the naked branches outside my office window, distorting my winter view of the distant trains and threatening the power so that I compulsively hover my fingers of the ctrl+s. And closing with a cozy evening with my husband, working on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiodeluxephotography.com\/blog\/\">art<\/a>, always with espresso or tea, and of course my favourite pajamas and pile of books. The descent into rainy season isn&#8217;t so bad after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My paintings are still doing that dough thing, resting, while I am back to a busy work week. While I don&#8217;t think I will actually finish any of these new pieces in time for the show, I did manage to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=3375\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29,36],"tags":[337,652,678,994],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-creative-2","category-parenting-2","tag-creativity","tag-motherhood","tag-new-year","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}