{"id":126,"date":"2005-08-08T11:16:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T11:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2015-08-23T18:53:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T07:53:37","slug":"artist-trading-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/08\/08\/artist-trading-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Trading Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been making a few artist trading cards<\/a>: an edition of just three. One of them is in exchange for Mimi<\/a>‘s night baby<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Close-ups below.<\/p>\n

I find the concept of artist trading cards quite seductive. It must be the idea of miniature art, like stamps and other mailart<\/a>. But I am also wary of getting into it, on time grounds alone.<\/p>\n

For a long time I wanted to make an installation – sometimes I still do! – with the little images<\/a> I did for The Republic of Pemberley<\/a> years ago. (Some of them were<\/em> money and stamps invented for that imaginary world, featuring Colin Firth’s Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, but those particular ones are not online at the moment). The idea was to print and frame the pictures at the scale they were made – 200 x 150 pixels – and then exhibit them in a purpose-built miniature gallery. The way you would view them would be through peep holes, or being able to pop you head up into the individual gallery rooms from underneath. The idea connects into ideas I have long played around with, to do with how cyberspace impacts on our understandings of public and private space.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been making a few artist trading cards: an edition of just three. One of them is in exchange for Mimi‘s night baby. Close-ups below. I find the concept of artist trading cards quite seductive. It must be the idea of miniature art, like stamps and other mailart. But I am also wary of getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[102,184,203,193,20,9],"tags":[316,317,290,177],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-craft","category-design","category-illustration","category-make","category-visual-art","tag-artist-trading-cards","tag-atc","tag-computer-bug","tag-republic-of-pemberley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-22","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}