{"id":4390,"date":"2022-07-31T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T19:21:21","slug":"on-the-whimsy-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4390","title":{"rendered":"on the Whimsy account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/Conviv\/pair.png\"<center><\/p>\n<p>\nAs I begin to work on my Artist Statement for the mid-September Joint Show, I find myself trying to account for the whimsicality of most of my images. So here&#8217;s an preliminary summary of my take on Whimsy:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center>Whimsy lives in the irreverent and allusive zones of the Imagination,<br \/>where things are built that cock snooks at<br \/>conventional boundaries of the factual.<\/p>\n<p>The whimsical rests upon<br \/>risible analogies,<br \/>wordplay,<br \/>and a fine sense for the absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Visible manifestations of the whimsical<br \/>are frequently paredoliac (&#8220;&#8230;it looks like&#8230;&#8221;),<br \/>often grandiose (what can I conjure out of this rock?),<br \/>and are generally calculated to amuse<br \/>(think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bjacques\/albums\/72157622452294268\/\">Grandville<\/a>)<br \/>or sometimes to warn and admonish<br \/>(think Gargoyles).<\/p>\n<p>The whimsical is likelier to elicit a snort than a guffaw.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut it is wise to remember<br \/>that some folk are annoyed by the whimsical,<br \/>and that the most literal-minded are often simply baffled.<\/p>\n<p>So choose your audience mindfully<br \/>and avoid poking the bear.<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lexicon","category-rumination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}