{"id":363,"date":"2007-05-17T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2023-01-24T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:52:37","slug":"new-works-blazing-palm-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/new-works-blazing-palm-trees.html","title":{"rendered":"New Works: Blazing Palm Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m working on a new series of large oil paintings depicting the ubiquitous palm trees of Los Angeles, set on fire and blazing away against L.A.\u2019s photochemical sunsets.<\/p>\n<p>The works allude to the intrinsic wildness of my city, where every year the surrounding hills are swept by fire, a phenomenon experienced by no other major metropolis on earth. It is an apocalyptic vision every Angelino is familiar with, as author Joan Didion once wrote, &#8220;The city burning is Los Angeles\u2019s deepest image of itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/images\/may07\/vallen_palms.jpg\" alt=\"In the studio\" width=\"338\" height=\"261\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the studio with my blazing Palm Trees. Photo by Jeannine Thorpe, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But my paintings are also rich in metaphor, alluding to my city\u2019s history of civil disturbances as well as the unspeakable violence going on elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Baghdad\u2019s palm trees burn just as fiercely as those in Los Angeles. At the risk of sounding maudlin, you might even say my paintings are a form of self-portrait &#8211; giving a picture of fiery passions illuminating our darkened times. I\u2019m pleased with the way my canvases are developing, I\u2019m working furiously on them night and day and hope to publicly unveil them soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m working on a new series of large oil paintings depicting the ubiquitous palm trees of Los Angeles, set on fire and blazing away against L.A.\u2019s photochemical sunsets. The works allude to the intrinsic wildness of my city, where every year the surrounding hills are swept by fire, a phenomenon experienced by no other major metropolis on earth. It is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}