{"id":2224,"date":"2025-06-09T20:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:21:32","slug":"9-summer-shards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/06\/09\/9-summer-shards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#9 summer shards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am often afraid of being stuck in ruts and repeating myself. I fear that I use the same plant material over and over each season. I try not to repeat the same shape or backdrop, but this afternoon as I wandered in my garden I thought, maybe there is value to mining what comes naturally, that which is in my own backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/09-summer-shards-2025-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/09-summer-shards-2025-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/09-summer-shards-2025-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/09-summer-shards-2025-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/09-summer-shards-2025-1536x1040.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/09-summer-shards-2025-2048x1387.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lamb&#8217;s Ear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While she [Ruth Asawa] was at Black Mountain College, she confessed to her mentor Josef Albers, that she wanted to paint flowers instead of pursuing the more formal, abstract work popular at the time. He told her, \u201cYou can paint flowers, but make sure that they\u2019re Asawa flowers.\u201d<br><br>&#8211;From a wonderful commentary by Wendy MacNaughton in her Draw Together <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/home\/post\/p-163340253?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web#footnote-1-163340253\">newsletter<\/a>. The quote comes from an oral history <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaa.si.edu\/collections\/interviews\/oral-history-interview-ruth-asawa-and-albert-lanier-12222\">interview <\/a>with Ruth Asawa and her husband, Albert Lanier, June 21-July 5, 2002 (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am often afraid of being stuck in ruts and repeating myself. I fear that I use the same plant material over and over each season. I try not to repeat the same shape or backdrop, but this afternoon as I wandered in my garden I thought, maybe there is value to mining what comes [&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":[30,31],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas","tag-asawa","tag-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}