{"id":33748,"date":"2012-12-12T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=33748"},"modified":"2012-12-12T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T14:37:08","slug":"amy-swartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2012\/12\/12\/amy-swartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Swartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33754\" title=\"Amy Swartz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy6.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Swartz\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy6.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy6-448x377.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33753\" title=\"Amy Swartz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy5.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Swartz\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy5.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy5-448x362.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33752\" title=\"Amy Swartz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy4.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Swartz\" width=\"500\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy4-448x373.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33750\" title=\"Amy Swartz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy2.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Swartz\" width=\"500\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy2-448x423.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33749\" title=\"Amy Swartz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Swartz\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy-448x410.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33755\" title=\"Amy Swartz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy7.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Swartz\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy7.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/amy7-448x327.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyswartz.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Swartz<\/a> is a Toronto-based artist who explores the idea of obsession\u00a0\u2014 not only in the practice of art, but also in humanity\u2019s perceived control over nature, life, and death.<em> (via her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyswartz.com\/#!about\/c21iy\" target=\"_blank\">About page<\/a>) .\u00a0<\/em>Not only do I enjoy the sense of humour in her pieces \u2013 particularly her ongoing work for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyswartz.com\/#!pest\/cx1o\" target=\"_blank\">Pest series<\/a>, but I think it&#8217;s interesting to see the reactions to the pieces as well. I can almost imagine the artist gleefully putting together new characters in a Frankenstein sort of way!<\/p>\n<p>The question then becomes (well, for me at least) would we treat these creatures any different if their heads were more like ours? Especially since these pieces are dealing with\u00a0anthropomorphism on a whole different level.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<h6>{ Discovered via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostateminor.com\/2012\/12\/05\/amy-swartz-insects-sculptures-with-a-twist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lost at E Minor<\/a> }<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Amy Swartz\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2012\/12\/12\/amy-swartz\/\" aria-label=\"More on Amy Swartz\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[64,73,123,92],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33762,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748\/revisions\/33762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}