{"id":2238,"date":"2025-06-13T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2025-06-13T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:12:02","slug":"13-summer-shards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/06\/13\/13-summer-shards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#13 summer shards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I am trying to name my pots I search the back of my mind for a shape association. It&#8217;s like trying to name an unresolved riddle that I can&#8217;t quite put my finger upon. When I began making these shapes I thought of them as caterpillars, reminiscent of a pot I made in the seventh grade. That was a time when I made things based on owls or hippos. These days I work more on the edge of meaning. I am coming to associate these forms with garden pods or turtle shells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-summer-shards-2025--1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-summer-shards-2025--1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-summer-shards-2025--300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-summer-shards-2025--768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-summer-shards-2025--1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13-summer-shards-2025--2048x1462.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Kentridge:<br>&#8220;The works by other artists that I keep coming back to have an unresolved riddle, or something at the edge of meaning you can\u2019t quite put your finger on. I remember as a child in our house, there was a print of a C\u00e9zanne painting in the dining room with a line of paint on the side of a road, and I couldn\u2019t tell \u2014 was that the edge of a drain coming into the road through the wall, or was it a person or a shadow of a person? The brain cannot stop trying to make sense of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<em>William Kentridge Reflects on What It Means to Be a South African Artist<\/em>, by Kate Guadagnino, excerpt from a New York Times article in T Magazine, June 9, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I am trying to name my pots I search the back of my mind for a shape association. It&#8217;s like trying to name an unresolved riddle that I can&#8217;t quite put my finger upon. When I began making these shapes I thought of them as caterpillars, reminiscent of a pot I made in the [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}