{"id":441,"date":"2021-04-29T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T09:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/?page_id=441"},"modified":"2022-07-23T18:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T10:43:04","slug":"shield-protect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/shield-protect\/","title":{"rendered":"Shield : Protect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"952\" height=\"635\" src=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/952x635-protect01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-688\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/952x635-protect01.jpg 952w, http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/952x635-protect01-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/952x635-protect01-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 952px) 100vw, 952px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em>shield : protect explores notions of apotropaic magic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following an ongoing interest in how to ward off\/ protect against unseen \u2018evils\u2019, miasmas, hexes, curses, death, with a focus on maintaining physical, mental and spiritual health for the maker\/ wearer\/ holder. These works were created late 2019 to early March 2021, with a force to maintain a creative outlet during the dislocation of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>They hint on ritualistic and altered religious practices and how we may create assertive, if not superstitious, actions to protect ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibited in 2021 in<em> Safe Keeping<\/em>, Mundaring Arts Centre. Acquired for the Shire of Mundaring Art Collection. In various private collections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/protect-shield\/\">Protect : Shield<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/shield-protect\/\">Shield : Protect\u00a0<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/curious\/\">Curious and Rare Articles<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/flora-fauna\/\">Flora \/ Fauna<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/distant\/\">Distant and Far off Lands<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/rings\/\">Tokens: A Decade of Rings 2005 \u2013 2015<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/fancy\/\">Experiments in Fancy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shield : protect explores notions of apotropaic magic. Following an ongoing interest in how to ward off\/ protect against unseen \u2018evils\u2019, miasmas, hexes, curses, death, with a focus on maintaining physical, mental and spiritual health for the maker\/ wearer\/ holder. These works were created late 2019 to early March 2021, with a force to maintain<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/shield-protect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shield : Protect&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-441","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amandaalderson.com\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}