{"id":2446,"date":"2023-04-19T02:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T02:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=2446"},"modified":"2023-04-25T03:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T03:31:38","slug":"michel-droge-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/michel-droge-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Droge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2447\" style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/1.-Portal-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2447\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/1.-Portal-2-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/1.-Portal-2-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/1.-Portal-2-754x1024.jpg 754w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/1.-Portal-2-768x1043.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/1.-Portal-2.jpg 1019w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Droge, <em>Portal<\/em>, oil on wood, 22 x 30 in., 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2448\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/2.-Psychedelic-Medusa-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2448\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/2.-Psychedelic-Medusa-2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/2.-Psychedelic-Medusa-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/2.-Psychedelic-Medusa-2-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/2.-Psychedelic-Medusa-2-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2023\/04\/2.-Psychedelic-Medusa-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Droge, <em>Psychedelic Medusa<\/em>, oil on wood, 40 x 60 in., 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><strong>Artist&#8217;s Statement<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This work is from an ongoing project that I began in the Spring of 2021. The paintings are inspired by the research of the deep sea and the creatures that live there and the importance of conserving and maintaining the balance and care of this ecosystem\u2014especially in the face of potential deep-sea mining and its destructive potential, which will cause a whole world out of balance.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Artist&#8217;s Statement This work is from an ongoing project that I began in the Spring of 2021. The paintings are inspired by the research of the deep sea and the creatures that live there and the importance of conserving and maintaining the balance and care of this ecosystem\u2014especially in the face of potential deep-sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11819,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2446\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}