{"id":113,"date":"2005-05-14T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T02:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=113"},"modified":"2012-03-30T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:17:15","slug":"safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/safe.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Safe\" width=\"499\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/safe.jpg 499w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/safe-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><br \/>\n2005<br \/>\noil on Belgian linen, gilded wood and plaster, weathered wood, nails<br \/>\n144 x 84 x 18 inches<\/p>\n<p>This is a lamentation on the continuing tragedy that is the Congo. No nails could keep them safe from King Leopold II. Weathered boards, tenuously placed, have thousands of nails, driven in an unsuccessful attempt to puncture the painting behind them, a colonially-pacified image of the Congo River, surrounded by an ostentatious trophy frame. The gilded frame holds clues to torture and exploitation: the leaves of a rubber plant, a <em>chicotte<\/em> (whip of rawhide), the mouth of a screaming hippo, and a diamond-and-dart motif.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/8J_SAFEdetail-new.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Safe detail \" width=\"577\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/8J_SAFEdetail-new.jpg 577w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/8J_SAFEdetail-new-115x150.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/safe_detail_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Safe detail \" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/safe_detail_2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/safe_detail_2-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/safe_detail_2-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/safe_detail_2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2005 oil on Belgian linen, gilded wood and plaster, weathered wood, nails 144 x 84 x 18 inches This is a lamentation on the continuing tragedy that is the Congo. No nails could keep them safe from King Leopold II. Weathered boards, tenuously placed, have thousands of nails, driven in an unsuccessful attempt to puncture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,34,33,41,26,73,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-from-dreams","category-politics","category-sculpture","category-themes","category-violence","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}