{"id":137,"date":"2015-07-17T22:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angelafremont.com\/dir\/?p=137"},"modified":"2015-07-31T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:44:56","slug":"more-thoughts-on-the-terracotta-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/2015\/07\/17\/more-thoughts-on-the-terracotta-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"More thoughts on the Terracotta Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The excavation pits, the beautifully detailed figures, the massive accumulation of artistic effort is staggering. I cannot take it all in. I draw, photograph, listen to our guide. The crowds of Chinese are large and appreciative. I get photographed, interviewed by young Chinese artists. My ambition to focus and be present gives me so much pleasure that I loose my group for an hour. But we have all learned from Tom\u2019s misfortune, and there is a meeting up spot at the arrival gate so I don\u2019t worry. The truth is that I am happy, alone, working, focused, making a drawing that will hold my memories of Xi\u2019an much longer than 500 photographs could. When I am drawing my eye and hand moves along the contour of the object like a very slow ant. I have never looked at a Terracotta horse and drawn it. I do not \u201cknow\u201d the form in my eye muscle to hand movement yet. The profile of the kneeling archer is unknown also. The layers of fired and painted clay, 2,000 years old holds me like listening to Ella and Louis. I am fixed. I thank the spirits of the ancestors for this art, this day, this world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"http:\/\/angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5527-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5527\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5527-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5527-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, 2015 &nbsp; The excavation pits, the beautifully detailed figures, the massive accumulation of artistic effort is staggering. I cannot take it all in. I draw, photograph, listen to our guide. The crowds of Chinese are large and appreciative. I get photographed, interviewed by young Chinese artists. My ambition to focus and be present &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/2015\/07\/17\/more-thoughts-on-the-terracotta-warriors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More thoughts on the Terracotta Warriors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelafremont.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}