{"id":61,"date":"2014-07-15T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2014-07-15T17:54:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:54:31","slug":"artist-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/artist-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed media shadow boxes; cabinets of curiosities; bizarre and self-contained worlds; my sculptural boxes are inspired in form by devotional &#8220;Retablos.&#8221; The fake and artificial world transports the viewer to another place.<\/p>\n<p>Visual themes of either Roman\/Greek mythology or Christian religious narratives are used allegorically to express the artist&#8217;s personal vision of the hidden anxieties of our time.<\/p>\n<p>Each &#8220;Tableau Box&#8221; or &#8220;Nicho&#8221; uses a combination of two- and three-dimensional art, creating an expressive visual that is both disorienting and deeply dream-like; a slice of life, not telling a story, but &#8220;freezing verbiage&#8221; to comment on an idea. An all-encompassing environment that transports the viewer, at least metaphorically, inside the artist&#8217;s head, evoking a world which is both serious and capricious&#8211;creating a toy-like puppet show in suspended animation, and pulling the viewer into the surreal world, if only for the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed media shadow boxes; cabinets of curiosities; bizarre and self-contained worlds; my sculptural boxes are inspired in form by devotional &#8220;Retablos.&#8221; The fake and artificial world transports the viewer to another place. Visual themes of either Roman\/Greek mythology or Christian religious narratives are used allegorically to express the artist&#8217;s personal vision of the hidden anxieties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P858fr-Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/salvatorescrivo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}