{"id":11059,"date":"2021-03-07T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11059"},"modified":"2021-03-07T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T16:07:03","slug":"what-is-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11059","title":{"rendered":"What Is An Artist&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Facebook stream just now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/myfeelingstomyself.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11060\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/myfeelingstomyself.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/myfeelingstomyself.jpg 636w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/myfeelingstomyself-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/myfeelingstomyself-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why I have cameras. Why I have pens and charcoal and brushes and canvases and paint. Thank goodness I found my language early on, or I&#8217;d have gone mad long ago from the pressure of feelings I had no words for.<\/p>\n<p>Why I know myself to be an artist, as pretentious as that sounds. I&#8217;m not doing any of it for the recognition&#8230;I&#8217;m actually lousy at getting recognition. If nobody ever saw a single new piece I did, I would still do them, because I have to get it out of me, in this particular way. I have a bunch of stuff nobody&#8217;s ever seen, and probably never will. But I got it out and that&#8217;s all that mattered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/artwork\/what-is-a-human-being.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Facebook stream just now&#8230; Why I have cameras. Why I have pens and charcoal and brushes and canvases and paint. Thank goodness I found my language early on, or I&#8217;d have gone mad long ago from the pressure of feelings I had no words for. Why I know myself to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,7],"tags":[147,250],"class_list":["post-11059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","tag-the-artists-need","tag-the-bleeding-heart-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}