{"id":19,"date":"2022-03-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2022-03-16T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T22:21:46","slug":"on-pain-ting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/dialogue\/on-pain-ting\/","title":{"rendered":"On pain-ting&#8230; an introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Blog1A-1024x711.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Blog1A-1024x711.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Blog1A-300x208.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Blog1A-768x533.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Blog1A.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a conceptual painter that produces work that is driven by creative research surrounding history, archaeology, personal narrative and contemporary art process. I have found over the years that art is somewhat connected to pain&#8230; hence, the title that I selected for this blog. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I realize that pain can be viewed in a negative way, but in relation to art making it is a healing sort of pain in its way. There is a pain in certain processes, and&#8211;at times\u2014in talking critically about art, as well as an aching sort of pain that drives the artist internally to continue making. And isn&#8217;t it always stated that painting is either dead or dying?!?!? Sounds like some pain to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, hey. Pain-ting: a process, a dialogue, an aching to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;Read on for an insider&#8217;s view on how\/why\/what I do as an artist and perhaps join me in some way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a conceptual painter that produces work that is driven by creative research surrounding history, archaeology, personal narrative and contemporary art process. I have found over the years that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13,15,12,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissafurness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}