{"id":586,"date":"2021-05-26T08:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T08:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/?p=586"},"modified":"2023-07-05T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T10:51:55","slug":"the-abandoned-water-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"The Abandoned Water Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cLiving Water\u201d is a SALA (South Australian Living Artists) exhibition, hosted by the Lutheran Church of Australia that ran throughout August 2021. \u00a0Artists were encouraged to explore the influences faith plays in artwork.\u00a0 This is the first of two paper sculptures I&#8217;ve created in response to the theme.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Abandoned-Water-Jar-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Abandoned-Water-Jar-738x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-587\" width=\"554\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Abandoned-Water-Jar-738x1024.jpg 738w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Abandoned-Water-Jar-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Abandoned-Water-Jar-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Abandoned-Water-Jar-1108x1536.jpg 1108w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Abandoned-Water-Jar-1477x2048.jpg 1477w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Abandoned-Water-Jar-scaled.jpg 1846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#deedf6\"><em>Based on the Bible story in John 4, a woman comes to the well to draw water. But through her encounter with Jesus she\u2019s captivated by Living Water, her life changes direction and she returns home without her water jar.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The water jar, well and woman are sculpted with cast recycled paper.&nbsp; Images are modelled in plasticine and plaster molds are created into which paper pulp is pressed. This process is detailed in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/?p=247\">Paper Sculptured Photographs<\/a> post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-3-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-3-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"592\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-3-2-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/?attachment_id=592\" class=\"wp-image-592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-3-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-3-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-3-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-3-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"593\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/?attachment_id=593\" class=\"wp-image-593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-2-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-2-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"591\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-2-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.recreations.com.au\/?attachment_id=591\" class=\"wp-image-591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-2-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-2-1-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-2-1-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-2-1-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jar-2-1-2048x1527.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The scene is set within a water drop and I experimented with cutting and embossing to decide how best to represent the gentle water ripples that surround it.&nbsp; This sculpture also includes &#8216;behind the scenes&#8217; three layers of cut and embossed droplets descending. Due to its translucency, I\u2019ve chosen paper vellum to depict water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It had its challenges!&nbsp; At A3 size, these are much larger than my usual paper sculptures, so working on and supporting larger sheets of paper was the first challenge.&nbsp; The second was the complex framing required for the bas-relief and layering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLiving Water\u201d is a SALA (South Australian Living Artists) exhibition, hosted by the Lutheran Church of Australia that ran throughout August 2021. \u00a0Artists were encouraged to explore the influences faith plays in artwork.\u00a0 This is the first of two paper sculptures I&#8217;ve created in response to the theme. Based on the Bible story in John &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/?p=586\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Abandoned Water Jar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recreations.subtleglitch.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}