{"id":3272,"date":"2010-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiebeaulac.com\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2010-05-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:00:00","slug":"stephen-sollins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/stephen-sollins\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Sollins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of me is pained by the work of Sollins because he removes needlework from existing vintage pieces.\u00a0 But he does so while counting the stitches by colour, and then reworks the canvas with exactly the same number of stitches that were used previously, but in a modernist, minimal grid.\u00a0 <span class=\"body\">The dominant color (by quantity) is always placed at  the upper right of the grid with the square size descending from right  to left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I really like the effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangrossfineart.com\/exhibitions\/ssollins05.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"stephensollins_elegy-bouquet-l.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.briangrossfineart.com\/exhibitions\/ssollins05.html');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/stephensollins_elegy-bouquet-l.jpg\" title=\"stephen sollins, needlepoint, vintage, repurpose, art, craft, thelooksee\" alt=\"stephen sollins, needlepoint, vintage, repurpose, art, craft, thelooksee\" width=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangrossfineart.com\/exhibitions\/ssollins05.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"stephen_sollins_elegy-thisismyhouse-l1.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.briangrossfineart.com\/exhibitions\/ssollins05.html');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/stephen_sollins_elegy-thisismyhouse-l1.jpg\" title=\"stephen sollins, needlepoint, vintage, repurpose, art, craft, thelooksee\" alt=\"stephen sollins, needlepoint, vintage, repurpose, art, craft, thelooksee\" width=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangrossfineart.com\/exhibitions\/ssollins05.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"stephen_sollins_elegy-andgladtobehome-l1.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.briangrossfineart.com\/exhibitions\/ssollins05.html');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/stephen_sollins_elegy-andgladtobehome-l1.jpg\" title=\"stephen sollins, needlepoint, vintage, repurpose, art, craft, thelooksee\" alt=\"stephen sollins, needlepoint, vintage, repurpose, art, craft, thelooksee\" width=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/dearada.typepad.com\/dear_ada\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/dearada.typepad.com\/dear_ada\/');\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of me is pained by the work of Sollins because he removes needlework from existing vintage pieces.\u00a0 But he does so while counting the stitches by colour, and then reworks the canvas with exactly the same number of stitches that were used previously, but in a modernist, minimal grid.\u00a0 The dominant color (by quantity) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11,20,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}