{"id":8737,"date":"2014-10-22T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2014-10-22T10:49:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:49:23","slug":"the-long-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-long-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Maggie-maggio-at-RAM-101714-sm.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8738\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-long-exploration\/maggie-maggio-at-ram-101714-sm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Maggie-maggio-at-RAM-101714-sm.jpg?fit=1087%2C848&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1087,848\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1413567934&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0166666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Maggie maggio at RAM 101714 sm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Maggie-maggio-at-RAM-101714-sm.jpg?fit=430%2C335&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Maggie-maggio-at-RAM-101714-sm-480x374.jpg?resize=480%2C374\" alt=\"Maggie maggio at RAM 101714 sm\" width=\"480\" height=\"374\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Maggie-maggio-at-RAM-101714-sm.jpg?resize=480%2C374&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Maggie-maggio-at-RAM-101714-sm.jpg?resize=150%2C117&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Maggie-maggio-at-RAM-101714-sm.jpg?resize=1024%2C798&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Maggie-maggio-at-RAM-101714-sm.jpg?w=1087&amp;ssl=1 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>Unlike Dever&#8217;s work as we saw yesterday,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Maggio<\/a>\u00a0exhibited work that is a continuation of her exploration of structure in polymer. Her wrap bangles and neck pieces are growing ever more bold, as well as bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the piece that just mesmerized me. As Maggie explains it, &#8220;<em>Grow III <\/em>represents the interweaving of the animal and plant world by blurring the lines between\u00a0snake and vine.&#8221; She adds, &#8220;I will need a larger oven as the pieces grow and grow!&#8221; This is a bit of reflection on the\u00a0success of her exploration as well as the size of her pieces. To understand just how big this issue is, take a close look at the necklace modeled on the exhibition card you see on the far right of this photo. (You can click on the photo for a larger version.)<\/p>\n<p>Maggie had several pieces in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramart.org\/content\/inorganic\" target=\"_blank\">Racine Museum of Art&#8217;s (in)Organic exhibition,<\/a> (there until February 1st, 2015. Get out to see it if you can. It is amazing.) including a piece that evolved into something quite different as she created it. Read her post about her process of exploration and one of those welcome accidents that led to a satisfying, but unexpected piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2014\/10\/serpentine-gothic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.thepolymerarts.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14-P3-Fall-Play-cover-Full-sm-116x150.jpg?resize=125%2C162\" alt=\"14-P3 Fall-Play cover Full sm\" width=\"125\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhimsicalbead.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8560\" 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T3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1411446691&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"polymer clay butterfly ornament sm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/polymer-clay-butterfly-ornament-sm.jpg?fit=125%2C126&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8561 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/polymer-clay-butterfly-ornament-sm.jpg?resize=125%2C126\" alt=\"polymer clay butterfly ornament sm\" width=\"125\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadesofclay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" 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Her wrap bangles and neck pieces are growing ever more bold, as well as bigger. Here is the piece that just mesmerized me. As Maggie explains it, &#8220;Grow III represents the interweaving of the animal&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":[1716,13,118,157,17,3457,3201,3079,3078,3442,179,29,30,12,11],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artist-inspiration","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-composition","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-exploration-of-polymer","tag-exploring","tag-exploring-boundaries","tag-exploring-creativity","tag-exploring-polymer","tag-maggie-maggio","tag-necklace","tag-organic","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-2gV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","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=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}