{"id":3939,"date":"2013-07-16T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2013-07-15T21:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T03:51:20","slug":"crackling-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/crackling-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackling Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our association with fire extends beyond the flames and light of it to the affect it has on the materials it burns. <a href=\"http:\/\/stillpointworks.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Maunsell&#8217;s<\/a> most recent\u00a0post \u00a0on her Flickr page, this\u00a0hollow red and ocher crackle bangle, really caught my eye due somewhat to my penchant for crackle textures but more so for the rough elegance of this piece. \u00a0It captures the colors and beauty that result from the destructive nature of fire. The way the color is applied reminds me of embers, and the way you&#8217;ll see bright red light moving back and forth through a smoldering piece of wood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stillpointworks\/9201875576\/in\/photostream\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/crackling-fires\/9201875576_d447661243\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/9201875576_d447661243.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9201875576_d447661243\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/9201875576_d447661243.jpg?fit=430%2C323&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3940\" alt=\"9201875576_d447661243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/9201875576_d447661243-480x360.jpg?resize=480%2C360\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/9201875576_d447661243.jpg?resize=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/9201875576_d447661243.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bangle actually has a lot more color than you can see in this image.\u00a0\u00a0You really need to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stillpointworks\/\" target=\"_blank\">her Flickr page<\/a> and see the various close-up photos of this piece, not to mention the rest of her wonderfully aged and weathered looking work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blog Banner Ad 230x125\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-Banner-Ad-230x125.jpg?resize=230%2C125\" width=\"230\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our association with fire extends beyond the flames and light of it to the affect it has on the materials it burns. Claire Maunsell&#8217;s most recent\u00a0post \u00a0on her Flickr page, this\u00a0hollow red and ocher crackle bangle, really caught my eye due somewhat to my penchant for crackle textures but more so for the rough elegance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[300,545,1020,1213,1205,1214,12,11],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-bracelet","tag-claire-maunsell","tag-crackle","tag-ember","tag-fire","tag-flame","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-11x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}