{"id":448,"date":"1989-07-26T19:48:02","date_gmt":"1989-07-26T23:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=448"},"modified":"2012-02-26T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:14:35","slug":"the-conditions-for-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/the-conditions-for-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conditions for Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-450\" title=\"Labrador Duck: 1875\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Labrador-Duck_750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Labrador-Duck_750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Labrador-Duck_750-590x399.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Labrador-Duck_750-700x473.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Labrador-Duck_750-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><em>Labrador Duck: 1875<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-449\" title=\"Heath Hen: 1932\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/heathhen2_750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/heathhen2_750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/heathhen2_750-590x399.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/heathhen2_750-700x473.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/heathhen2_750-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><em>Heath Hen: 1932<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-831\" title=\"Sea Mink: 1890\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seamink.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seamink.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seamink-590x397.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seamink-700x471.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seamink-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Sea Mink: 1890<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-451\" title=\"Passenger Pigeon: 1914\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pigeon_750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pigeon_750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pigeon_750-590x399.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pigeon_750-700x473.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pigeon_750-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><em>Passenger Pigeon: 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1989<br \/>\ncast stone<\/p>\n<p>Originally installed in New York\u2019s Central Park, <em>Conditions for Memory<\/em> is a four-part sculpture recalling the extinction of animal species native to the East Coast. The Sea Mink, Heath Hen, Passenger Pigeon, and Labrador Duck are represented by negative casts of those animals\u2019 bodies configured as non-functional molds, unable to replicate the specimens. Each element is inscribed with the year of the given species\u2019 extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labrador Duck: 1875 Heath Hen: 1932 Sea Mink: 1890 Passenger Pigeon: 1914 1989 cast stone Originally installed in New York\u2019s Central Park, Conditions for Memory is a four-part sculpture recalling the extinction of animal species native to the East Coast. The Sea Mink, Heath Hen, Passenger Pigeon, and Labrador Duck are represented by negative casts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,20,28,39,66,25,41,35,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-among-others","category-ecology","category-installations","category-other","category-public","category-sculpture","category-site-specific-works","category-themes","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}