{"id":233,"date":"2008-05-06T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-05-08T10:09:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T18:09:26","slug":"figurative-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/figurative-abstract\/","title":{"rendered":"Figurative Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some extra time today to work on my painting, so I began adding three abstract figures and collage elements to the background.<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for this piece came from some reoccurring dreams I&#8217;ve had over the past year, in which these very elongated tall abstract figures float over the landscape. They usually travel together in family groups.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-235\" title=\"unity2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/unity2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/unity2.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/unity2-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unity <\/strong>&#8211; Acrylic, Mixed Media &#8211; 16 X 20 inches<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;I offer      you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I      hear your need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest      Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and      love.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Mahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;Let      children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and      communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in      woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and      they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.&#8221;<br \/>\n-John Muir<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I am the country, my eyes the sky, my limbs the trees,<br \/>\nI am the rock, the depth of water.<br \/>\nI am not here, in order to control nature or exploit her.<br \/>\nI am even nature.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8211; Hopi<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some extra time today to work on my painting, so I began adding three abstract figures and collage elements to the background. The inspiration for this piece came from some reoccurring dreams I&#8217;ve had over the past year, in which these very elongated tall abstract figures float over the landscape. They usually travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[139,33,809,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}