{"id":104,"date":"2005-05-14T21:52:05","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=104"},"modified":"2012-05-22T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T17:33:15","slug":"shape-of-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/shape-of-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape of a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Shape-of-a-Lie-mouth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shape of a Lie (mouth)\" width=\"750\" height=\"558\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Shape-of-a-Lie-mouth.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Shape-of-a-Lie-mouth-590x439.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Shape-of-a-Lie-mouth-700x521.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Shape-of-a-Lie-mouth-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n2005<br \/>\nbronze, catlinite (native American pipestone)<br \/>\n70 x 29 x 54 inches<br \/>\nedition of 3<\/p>\n<p>The morphology of a lie. The first thing one encounters is the lie escaping through an open mouth and over a harassing tongue (modeled after the artist\u2019s tongue). Behind the wall holding the tongue and mouth are the organs of the lie. There is the initial, fragile toehold in reality. Freudian urges are represented here as swollen gonadic engines. Where these two organs meet, the gut wrenches. It reacts, knotting and clenching into a path of resistance. But the lie makes its way through this queasy constriction and swells. The splinter of reason, a three-dimensional encapsulation of Piranesi\u2019s irrational architecture, spikes into the ballooning lie, attempting to deflate it. It fails, however, to perforate the monstrous proposition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2-ape_of_a_lie_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shape of a Lie\" width=\"750\" height=\"565\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2-ape_of_a_lie_2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2-ape_of_a_lie_2-590x444.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2-ape_of_a_lie_2-700x527.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2-ape_of_a_lie_2-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/3_shape_of_a_lie_back.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shape of a Lie (back)\" width=\"490\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/3_shape_of_a_lie_back.jpg 490w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/3_shape_of_a_lie_back-98x150.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2005 bronze, catlinite (native American pipestone) 70 x 29 x 54 inches edition of 3 The morphology of a lie. The first thing one encounters is the lie escaping through an open mouth and over a harassing tongue (modeled after the artist\u2019s tongue). Behind the wall holding the tongue and mouth are the organs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,57,40,33,41,75,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-esoteric-associations","category-multiples","category-politics","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","category-themes","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}