{"id":89,"date":"2011-08-05T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-08-05T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:25:28","slug":"collecting-for-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Collecting for Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92\" title=\"Picture 4\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-41-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-41-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-41.png 327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>I discovered the book <em>Rachel Whiteread Drawings<\/em> when I was in J.Crew shopping for a T-shirt. The store was using art books (REALLY great ones at that!) as visual props. This was a mistake as far as I was concerned because I was totally disinterested in the clothes and immediately drawn to playing with the &#8220;props&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-94\" title=\"Paper shoes\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-32-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-32-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-32.png 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for me, discovering an art book that I&#8217;ve not seen before is one of my joys in life. I really like this one because, to me, it&#8217;s mostly about gaining inspiration from the mundane, objects all around you, and also about collecting objects that interest you that may later serve as starting points for artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video to see Whiteread talking about her <em>collecting<\/em> process&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/oEpnkNdYQ_0\">Rachel Whiteread in her studio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-95\" title=\"Picture 2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-2-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-2-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Picture-2.png 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered the book Rachel Whiteread Drawings when I was in J.Crew shopping for a T-shirt. The store was using art books (REALLY great ones at that!) as visual props. This was a mistake as far as I was concerned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/?p=89\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14,15,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}