{"id":68,"date":"1987-05-14T20:50:24","date_gmt":"1987-05-15T00:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-02-26T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:22:32","slug":"origin-and-obscurity-revealed-and-aligned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/origin-and-obscurity-revealed-and-aligned\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin and Obscurity Revealed and Aligned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n1987
\npencil and watercolor on paper on board, wood frame
\n13 1\/4 x 9 1\/4 inches<\/p>\n

Origin and Obscurity Revealed and Aligned<\/em> provides a detail of Garden Where the Wild Grass Obscures the True Pearl<\/em><\/a>, a site-specific park proposal for New York City\u2019s Chinatown in 1987. In the drawing, the park is shaped as an oyster, with the central point of the park containing a metaphorical pearl, a place where, at the time that Chin surveyed the site, a homeless Chinese man had set up an elaborate labyrinthine shelter. <\/p>\n

After the shelter was destroyed by authorities, a feng shui master indicated that the selection of the site by this homeless person was an important sign and must be marked or commemorated. Chin proposed a paved pattern in the configuration of a ba gua or eight-diagram Taoist amulet. The trash or bad energy of the area would be buried and then controlled by the protective symbolism of the stones. Origin and Obscurity Revealed and Aligned<\/em> is the drawing of that point within the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1987 pencil and watercolor on paper on board, wood frame 13 1\/4 x 9 1\/4 inches Origin and Obscurity Revealed and Aligned provides a detail of Garden Where the Wild Grass Obscures the True Pearl, a site-specific park proposal for New York City\u2019s Chinatown in 1987. In the drawing, the park is shaped as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,28,59,19,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2d","category-drawing","category-ecology","category-mapping","category-studies","category-themes","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}