{"id":63,"date":"2006-02-07T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/testblog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2019-06-16T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:39:29","slug":"self-portrait-with-owl-needlecase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/self-portrait-with-owl-needlecase\/","title":{"rendered":"self portrait with owl needlecase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNot what the teacher wanted, but typical of my primary school art efforts.<\/p>\n

In my lateral-thinking impatience, I’d decided against even rows for tapestries. Quicker. Nearly the same, really. My Mum supported me, my right as a child to view the world differently, to question and explore. She helped me choose a white\/brown wool for the legs, tying the owl to the branch.<\/p>\n

The teacher hadn’t bothered to check what I was doing ’till I was almost done. Again. I remember the hot, darkish demountable* and the look on her face. There wasn’t time for me to do it over, I was to leave it as was.<\/p>\n

I was half disappointed, half defiant. I do like the thick fuzzy stars, like the way the different sized rows recall the horizon. The white lines in between are merely a mistake, my misunderstanding of the teacher’s instructions.<\/p>\n

Have I changed? No. I still wish I could foresee the consequences of the shortcuts I take, and I still believe in interesting accidents. But maybe now I’m willing to do it over, to try to pull it off consciously this time.<\/p>\n

* Demountables are temporary, moveble classrooms schools never have the funding to rebuild or replace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not what the teacher wanted, but typical of my primary school art efforts. In my lateral-thinking impatience, I’d decided against even rows for tapestries. Quicker. Nearly the same, really. My Mum supported me, my right as a child to view the world differently, to question and explore. She helped me choose a white\/brown wool for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-sewn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t