{"id":1274,"date":"2022-10-17T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2023-11-30T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T22:07:51","slug":"chamomile-friends-gather-tea-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/chamomile-friends-gather-tea-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamomile Friends Gather: Tea in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chamomile tea soothes. Stormy weather, cranky disposition, upset stomach in general\u2026Chamomile puts it all right again. Bear-people are particularly helped by a cup of Chamomile when the weather inside or out has been brewing up a storm. This sunny little flower inspired me to express the kind of worldview that\u2019s best soothed by a nip of Chamomile in this piece. Here, a group of bears are gathering on the edge of a field of chamomile under a glowering sky. The fabrics for sky and field are hand-dyed for this project. I matched them with commercial and previously dyed fabrics to create the drama and grounded earthy energies of this work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Size<\/strong>: 30 inches x 60 inches, horizontal (76 cm x 152 cm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Materials<\/strong>: Cotton fabric, Silk Organza fabric, cotton and polyester threads and cording<\/li>\n<li><strong>Created<\/strong>: August 2021<\/li>\n<li><strong>Series<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/tea-in-the-wild-series\/\">Tea in the Wild<\/a> series #1<\/li>\n<li><strong>Current Location<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzonegallery.org\">New Zone Gallery<\/a>, $998 contact gallery to purchase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1278\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1278\" src=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chamomile-Friends-Gather-Small-size.jpeg\" alt=\"Chamomile Friends Gather: Tea in the Wild Series, detail\" width=\"720\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chamomile-Friends-Gather-Small-size.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chamomile-Friends-Gather-Small-size-300x158.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chamomile-Friends-Gather-Small-size-1024x539.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chamomile-Friends-Gather-Small-size-768x404.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Jon Christopher Meyers, studiomeyers.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>My Thoughts on the Work<\/h2>\n<p>I wanted to explore <a href=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/tea-in-the-wild-series\/\">Tea in the Wild<\/a>, sharing with my audience the nature of the plant medicines as I\u2019ve come to know them through story-telling. In this piece, I\u2019ve given we humans a spot in the very foreground, with a journal and cup of tea to mark our place. We belong very much in the wild world, although sometimes I think we\u2019d be wise to take time to observe before we jump in and start trying to fix the problems we see. Often times, Nature has a fix already cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Chamomile offers just that kind of fix. I love the high drama of the sky in this piece. It speaks to the level of high drama that clues me in to the need for a nice cuppa Chamomile tea. The fields of Chamomile on the mid- to foreground hints at the soothing nature of Chamomile when dealing with the threat of such stormy weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chamomile tea soothes. Stormy weather, cranky disposition, upset stomach in general\u2026Chamomile puts it all right again. Bear-people are particularly helped by a cup of Chamomile when the weather inside or out has been brewing up a storm. This sunny little flower inspired me to express the kind of worldview that\u2019s best soothed by a nip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-representational-artwork","category-series-artwork","tag-2dimensional-artwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}