{"id":7496,"date":"2022-01-22T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T03:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7496"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:20:46","slug":"greg-colson-nordby-building-directiveintersection","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/en\/product\/greg-colson-nordby-building-directiveintersection\/","title":{"rendered":"GREG COLSON &#8211; NORDBY BUILDING DIRECTIVE(INTERSECTION)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>NORDBY BUILDING DIRECTIVE(INTERSECTION)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1993<br \/>\nenamel and oil on wood and metal<br \/>\n45.5 x 66 x 40.5cm<br \/>\n18 x 26 x 16 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORDBY BUILDING DIRECTIVE (1993) was the first \u2018Intersection-type\u2019 sculpture that I made. \u00a0It was inspired by a directional sign for the Nordby Conference Building I saw while exploring the Port of Seattle in 1992. \u00a0Because Seattle is my birthplace, the sculpture took on an autobiographical aspect. \u00a0As I wandered around the port that day, I flashed upon my memory of visiting the port and nearby Ballard Locks as a child with my father in the 1960s. \u00a0The sculpture itself is an awkward open matrix of wood and metal signs and support struts. \u00a0I think of it as a cloud of memory and associations in which the space around and within is as important as the materials. \u00a0The notion of signs and labels is interesting to me&#8230;how specific and poetic these names can be even in the context of function. \u00a0Who is this guy Nordby anyway? \u00a0Why is this building named after him? \u00a0Since then, I\u2019ve made probably fifteen Intersection sculptures, with themes ranging from \u201cschools I\u2019ve attended\u201d to \u201ctraumatic experiences.\u201d\u00a0 -Greg Colson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33850,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[170],"product_tag":[64,97,95,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-7496","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"product_tag-fine-art","8":"product_tag-greg-colson","9":"product_tag-wall-installation","10":"product_tag-98","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clumsy.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}