{"id":963,"date":"1991-12-14T20:25:58","date_gmt":"1991-12-15T00:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=963"},"modified":"2012-03-30T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:29:11","slug":"ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ghost_1991_LR_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ghost\" width=\"750\" height=\"493\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ghost_1991_LR_4.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ghost_1991_LR_4-590x388.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ghost_1991_LR_4-700x460.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ghost_1991_LR_4-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n1991<br \/>\nchalk on nylon mesh, wood, steel, construction rubble<br \/>\nHartford, CT<br \/>\n10 feet x 30 feet x 35 feet <\/p>\n<p><em>Ghost<\/em> was a temporary installation that recreated the facade of the Talcott Street Congregational Church, Connecticut&#8217;s oldest free black church, whose original meeting house stood on this site from 1826 to 1906 and was the cornerstone of a thriving community. This project is not about nostalgia. <em>Ghost<\/em> functioned as a haunting presence that critiqued the unfulfilled promises of urban renewal. <em>Ghost<\/em> was intended as a catalyst for continuing critical discussion and developing action in response to those unfulfilled promises.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ghost detail\" width=\"750\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST-detail.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST-detail-590x402.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST-detail-700x477.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST-detail-150x102.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\/12\/GHOST_CHURCH.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ghost_church\" width=\"750\" height=\"726\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST_CHURCH.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST_CHURCH-590x571.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST_CHURCH-700x678.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GHOST_CHURCH-150x145.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1991 chalk on nylon mesh, wood, steel, construction rubble Hartford, CT 10 feet x 30 feet x 35 feet Ghost was a temporary installation that recreated the facade of the Talcott Street Congregational Church, Connecticut&#8217;s oldest free black church, whose original meeting house stood on this site from 1826 to 1906 and was the cornerstone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39,66,23,25,35,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-installations","category-other","category-participatory","category-public","category-site-specific-works","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","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=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}