{"id":2540,"date":"2023-07-24T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2024-05-30T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:30:46","slug":"mid-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/mid-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-West is about the the confluence of Mother Earth\u2019s fertility, Forest and Plains, Big Sky and changing seasons, Corn and Farming. It looks simple on the surface, like an ear of corn, but Mother Nature isn\u2019t actually so.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s full of contradiction. Deep snow and cold through winter, Springs of too much or too little rain, migrations bringing news from far away, Winds and storms of aching drama or gentle sweetness. All of that is Mid-Western. For plain and simple is our fantasy of Mid-Western living.<\/p>\n<p>Reality is another picture altogether.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Materials<\/strong>: Cotton, cotton-polyester thread, dye.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Series<\/strong>: NA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Size<\/strong>: 22 inches x 22.5 inches (56 cm x 57 cm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Completed<\/strong>: 2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Current location<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzonegallery.org\">New Zone Gallery<\/a>, $128 contact gallery to purchase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2541\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2541\" src=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-1.jpg 1429w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-1-1016x1024.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-1-768x774.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mid-West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>My Thoughts on the Work<\/h2>\n<p>As I built Mid-West, I kept thinking back to my own experience of the area we Americans call the Mid-west, ranging from my natal home in Michigan West past my childhood home in Minnesota to the Dakotas and south to Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. Although the land varies far more than most folk like to think, there\u2019s a generally shared mentality about life that I\u2019ve found common to the Midwestern communities I\u2019ve known. Independent, hard-working, dedicated, and practical &#8211; Farmers at heart. That\u2019s the core of the Midwestern mindset as I\u2019ve known it.<\/p>\n<p>We like to pretend that farming and farmers in general are simple. Life on a farm is anything but simple. Each day, Mother Nature offers up a new challenge. Farmers are forever adapting and pivoting while always keeping in mind the goal &#8211; nourishment and survival. It\u2019s a complicated lifestyle, one that says little and does loads. Mid-West is an exploration of the simplicity that is bourn of nature\u2019s complex dance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2542 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-2.jpg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2543 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Mid-West-3.jpg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-West is about the the confluence of Mother Earth\u2019s fertility, Forest and Plains, Big Sky and changing seasons, Corn and Farming. It looks simple on the surface, like an ear of corn, but Mother Nature isn\u2019t actually so. She\u2019s full of contradiction. Deep snow and cold through winter, Springs of too much or too little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abstract-artwork","tag-2dimensional-artwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candacehunter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}