{"id":444,"date":"2011-01-14T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2011-01-14T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:06:08","slug":"shape-and-theory-re-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/2011\/01\/shape-and-theory-re-the-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape and Theory (re: the body)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_445\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0726-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-445\" title=\"Brown paper bag\" src=\"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0726-copy-590x789.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0726-copy-590x789.jpg 590w, https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0726-copy-950x1271.jpg 950w, https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0726-copy.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">created from only butcher paper; no other media<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the Winter Interim, I chose to study in the fashion department, taking a course entitled Shape and Theory.<\/p>\n<p>The premise of the course is refreshing, focusing on form and elements of design rather than pure concept.<\/p>\n<p>I could not completely divorce myself from material as I worked with the butcher paper, thus producing form that was reminiscent of a paper bag.<\/p>\n<p>Because volume was the main objective, I thought of the body as positive and its surrounding volume as negative. With this in mind, creating a volume that was multi-directional &#8212; defying and obeying gravity&#8211; seemed like the right solution.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured here is the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Winter Interim, I chose to study in the fashion department, taking a course entitled Shape and Theory. The premise of the course is refreshing, focusing on form and elements of design rather than pure concept. I could not completely divorce myself from material as I worked with the butcher paper, thus producing form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,53,39,28,62],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-materiality","tag-media","tag-scale","tag-spatial","tag-volume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}