{"id":2702,"date":"2014-03-09T14:19:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T19:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2014-03-10T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:09:12","slug":"landscapes-small-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2702","title":{"rendered":"Landscapes &#8211; Small Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2703\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2703\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2703\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2703\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/landscape-thingies-black-v-brown.jpg?fit=450%2C301&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,301\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1394371626&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"landscape thingies black v brown\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/landscape-thingies-black-v-brown.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/landscape-thingies-black-v-brown.jpg?fit=450%2C301&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2703\" alt=\"landscape thingies black v brown\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/landscape-thingies-black-v-brown.jpg?resize=450%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/landscape-thingies-black-v-brown.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/landscape-thingies-black-v-brown.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m deciding whether these little textile landscapes will be mounted against black or dark-greyish brown.\u00a0\u00a0 These little assemblies have dimsions of 5-8cm, \u00a0and I envisage added\u00a0stitching&#8230; but they will be nothing like the framed pieces I had here in a gallery one season a few years back &#8211;\u00a0below\u00a0is one of a group I called &#8216;Fabriciations&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fabrications-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fabrications #1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fabrications-1.jpg?resize=400%2C398&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0blogged about\u00a0them and\u00a0other small works <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><a title=\"small landscape works 2011\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?m=201105\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and they all sold well.\u00a0 While these don&#8217;t look landscapey really, they definitely grew out of a group of small little landscapes made about\u00a012-15 years ago.\u00a0 These were small, colourful patchwork pieced landscapes with borders and feature stitching, all about postcard\u00a0\u00a0size.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em> Now\u00a0I can&#8217;t stand the mounts<\/em> &#8211;<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and last year ripped the remaining pieces off<\/span> &#8211; <em>and actually, I don&#8217;t particularly care for the textile pieces, themselves, either!<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0I have about\u00a08 left\u00a0deep in a dark cupboard, and only show them here to illustrate that despite changes in my personal taste and so on, there are unifying elements\u00a0in my vision\u00a0to which I go back time and again.\u00a0 I&#8217;d never show them today, but here&#8217;s how they looked displayed about 10\u00a0years ago in Fremantle:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=1262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1262\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=1262\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-improvisations-31.jpg?fit=400%2C257&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,257\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"small improvisations 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-improvisations-31.jpg?fit=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-improvisations-31.jpg?fit=400%2C257&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1262\" alt=\"small improvisations 3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-improvisations-31.jpg?resize=400%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-improvisations-31.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-improvisations-31.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m deciding whether these little textile landscapes will be mounted against black or dark-greyish brown.\u00a0\u00a0 These little assemblies have dimsions of 5-8cm, \u00a0and I envisage added\u00a0stitching&#8230; but they will be nothing like the framed pieces I had here in a gallery one season a few years back &#8211;\u00a0below\u00a0is one of a group I called &#8216;Fabriciations&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-HA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}