{"id":818,"date":"2018-10-12T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/?page_id=818"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:43:24","slug":"fulcrumchair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/?page_id=818","title":{"rendered":"Fulcrum Chair, Fall 2018, The Hambidge Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-822\" style=\"width: 1152px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FulcrumChairLowIMG_1453_sml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-822\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FulcrumChairLowIMG_1453_sml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fulcrum Chair, low<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Fulcrum Chair<\/em>, Fall 2018, <\/strong><strong>The Hambidge Center<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><em>Fulcrum Chair<\/em> holds symbolism that relates to the cycle of life, and a coming and going\u2014a revolution of sorts. It is built around the Spring House, in front of the Hambidge Center\u2019s welcoming Rock House. Water burbles through and down from the Spring House, cleansing, feeding into Betty\u2019s Creek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">The chair is a meditation on stasis. Here, it is a resting stop, not for the observer to literally take a seat, but to consider their pauses\u2014momentary or prolonged\u2014current, past, or future. It is holding place\u2014one that remembers the pressure of form and flesh. The chair can reflect a stillness of soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">The fulcrum balances us between the present, where our feet are grounded, and either a turning back or some-sort-of momentum forward. Ties tether us to the sky. They can link us in a delectable balance, capturing the air between space and solid. A tight bond may trip us up so that we fall to one side of the fulcrum. This is an area where memory and truth and wishes vie to tell a story, one that is usually tangled with loss and hope. Ropes and strings will bind us into a questioning of whether to breathe and pause, or pull against to act with determination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Lastly, we have objects to take with us, to carry in our pockets, to provide a sense of calm and stability as we balance ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fulcrum Chair, Fall 2018, The Hambidge Center Fulcrum Chair holds symbolism that relates to the cycle of life, and a coming and going\u2014a revolution of sorts. It is built around the Spring House, in front of the Hambidge Center\u2019s welcoming Rock House. Water burbles through and down from the Spring House, cleansing, feeding into Betty\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/?page_id=818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fulcrum Chair, Fall 2018, The Hambidge Center&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":822,"parent":304,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-818","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaalembik.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}