{"id":4424,"date":"2012-01-10T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2012-01-10T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T14:50:00","slug":"glorious-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2012\/01\/10\/glorious-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Glorious mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333399;\"><strong>A whole lot of fun<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Years ago I stumbled across the following phrase in a Charles Swindoll book: &#8216;better a productive mess than tidy\u00a0idleness&#8217;. Ever since I have tried to make my creativity the excuse for my messiness &#8211; though I am not sure it altogether works.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has definitely\u00a0created\u00a0a virtue out of mess here though. Her exhibit,<em> The\u00a0Obliteration\u00a0Room<\/em>, opened in The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art as an entirely white room. Everything &#8211; from the walls and floor to the furniture and the plants, was stark and unyielding white.\u00a0Children\u00a0visiting the exhibit were then encouraged to adorn the room with stickers &#8211; which they have done with a vengeance:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.humansinvent.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sticker-room-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.humansinvent.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sticker-room-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: cdn.humansinvent.com<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.humansinvent.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sticker-room-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.humansinvent.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sticker-room-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: cdn.humansinvent.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course you could ask &#8211; is it art? I prefer to ask &#8211; isn&#8217;t it fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whole lot of fun Years ago I stumbled across the following phrase in a Charles Swindoll book: &#8216;better a productive mess than tidy\u00a0idleness&#8217;. Ever since I have tried to make my creativity the excuse for my messiness &#8211; though &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2012\/01\/10\/glorious-mess\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}