{"id":145,"date":"2020-10-02T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/?p=145"},"modified":"2020-11-06T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:38:00","slug":"shastia-azulay-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/shastia-azulay-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Shastia Azulay \u201923"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-162\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/Shastia-Azulay-The-Fight-Continues.jpg\" alt=\"Sculpture of a Black person in a skirt suit and Afro holding their fist in a Black power salute\" width=\"520\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/Shastia-Azulay-The-Fight-Continues.jpg 520w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/Shastia-Azulay-The-Fight-Continues-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>The Fight Continues,\u201d 2020.\u00a0Oil-based clay, armature wire, tinfoil, styrofoam, 2.5 x 2 x 7.5 inches<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist Statement<\/strong>: My sculpture was inspired by Marc Quinn\u2019s statue of the Black Lives Matter protestor\u00a0Jen Reid. The statue of Jen Reid was erected on the same plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston had stood a few days earlier. However, the powerful statue of Reid was removed after only one day, under the explanation that it had been placed without permission from the city; the plinth remains empty to this day. This silencing of BLM imagery, protected by the simple statement of &#8220;it&#8217;s the law,&#8221; is one of the many factors that hold back positive change. Throughout history, black voices have been silenced, and people today still have to fight to be heard and treated equally.\u00a0 There is powerful work being done to fight for equality and respect, but the fight isn&#8217;t over. There is still much to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy sculpture was inspired by Marc Quinn\u2019s statue of the Black Lives Matter protestor\u00a0Jen Reid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1545,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sculpture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/Shastia-Azulay-The-Fight-Continues-3x2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}