﻿{"id":48,"date":"2008-06-01T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyviewsandreviews.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/06\/01\/composting-good-and-evil-redesign-for-sanctimonious-sinners-2\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T08:05:00","slug":"composting-good-and-evil-redesign-for-sanctimonious-sinners-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/2008\/06\/01\/composting-good-and-evil-redesign-for-sanctimonious-sinners-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Composting Good and Evil: Redesign for Sanctimonious Sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/SEJZ75lUnlI\/AAAAAAAAAOg\/au_gurKwzk0\/s1600-h\/image003.png\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/SEJZ75lUnlI\/AAAAAAAAAOg\/au_gurKwzk0\/s320\/image003.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>To honor &#8220;World Fair Trade Day&#8221; (May 10th) I thought that an Art Show was in order, especially a show of &#8220;repurposed&#8221; art. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I heartily recommend that you take a few moments to enjoy the wacky, wonderful and truly beautiful in the current show &#8211; Composting Good and Evil: Redesign for Sanctimonious Sinners now &#8220;live&#8221; on the Ethical Metalsmiths website at:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org\/CGE_Intro.html\">http:\/\/www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org\/CGE_Intro.html<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>A call for entries was posted last November on a number of websites and list serves and sent to schools and metal arts organizations. Artists were asked to consider how to reconcile the way we consume the world&#8217;s resources, our &#8220;evil&#8221; habits, with our &#8220;good&#8221; intentions.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>They were asked &#8220;to consider what would happen if we tossed our smug habits into a heap? <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>What would happen if we composted our shameless sins, our saintly intentions and our fertile imaginations and pledged to use the resulting fecund glory to redesign and nurture the world?&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Rethinking, redesigning, recycling and repurposing were encouraged. Eighty nine artists responded. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The resulting exhibition is a subtly subversive and engaging visual essay about choosing change; it is insightful, humorous, startling, ironic, challenging, beautiful, puzzling, erotic, traditional, thoughtful, accomplished and &#8220;other.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>There was a digital screening and reception at the SNAG conference in Savannah in addition to its showing on an outdoor digital billboard in front of the building. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To honor &#8220;World Fair Trade Day&#8221; (May 10th) I thought that an Art Show was in order, especially a show of &#8220;repurposed&#8221; art. I heartily recommend that you take a few moments to enjoy the wacky, wonderful and truly beautiful in the current show &#8211; Composting Good and Evil: Redesign for Sanctimonious Sinners now &#8220;live&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,82,86,159,182,187,223,224,226,261,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}