{"id":309,"date":"2012-04-21T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2012-04-21T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T13:16:31","slug":"woman-walking-with-hand-to-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/21\/woman-walking-with-hand-to-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Walking with Hand to Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=146\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-146\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"146\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/gallery\/sculpture-2\/standingfig31312-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/standingfig31312.jpg?fit=2072%2C1432&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2072,1432\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"standingfig31312.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/standingfig31312.jpg?fit=584%2C403&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-146\" title=\"standingfig31312.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/standingfig31312.jpg?resize=300%2C207&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/standingfig31312.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/standingfig31312.jpg?resize=1024%2C707&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/standingfig31312.jpg?resize=434%2C300&amp;ssl=1 434w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/standingfig31312.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/standingfig31312.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four views of a work in progress. \u00a0This is four views of a single figure, about one metre tall, made from hardboard and fixed with a glue gun. \u00a0The figure is from <a title=\"Muybridge\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eadweard_Muybridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muybridge<\/a>&#8211; &#8216;Woman walking with hand to her mouth&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/96\/Eadweard_Muybridge_1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Woman Walking Downstairs\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/96\/Eadweard_Muybridge_1.gif\" alt=\"Woman Walking Downstairs\" width=\"84\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The desire here is to get the kind of movement you find in Duchamp into the single figure, or to simply have the movement apparent in the static representation, so it&#8217;s very much a first version, and very much unfinished.<\/p>\n<p>That may be a characteristic of my work on reflection, the &#8216;unfinished&#8217; quality. I won&#8217;t claim it as deliberate, but then I do stop.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 132px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nude Descending a Staircase\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/c\/c0\/Duchamp_-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg\" alt=\"Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase\" width=\"122\" height=\"200\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>The process I try to follow when I work is to work without reference, to try to let the object dictate it&#8217;s own result. \u00a0There are some other examples <a title=\"Sculpture\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?gallery=sculpture-2\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgements:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wikimedia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=muybridge+wikimedia+commons&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari\">wikimedia commons Eadweard Muybridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Duchamp\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase,_No._2\">Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 &#8211; wikipedia 21\/04\/12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four views of a work in progress. \u00a0This is four views of a single figure, about one metre tall, made from hardboard and fixed with a glue gun. \u00a0The figure is from Muybridge&#8211; &#8216;Woman walking with hand to her mouth&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/21\/woman-walking-with-hand-to-mouth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,6,19,8],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-art","tag-new","tag-sculpture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2me3G-4Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}