{"id":174,"date":"2021-09-25T06:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T06:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:38:54","slug":"lindley-briggs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/meet-the-artists\/lindley-briggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindley Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Hidden Watchers<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Water patterns and eyes are some of my very favorite things. Have sculpted them in many forms over the years. By combining stylized images of both, I hope to create a medal that evokes an aura of mystery. Hopefully the viewer will wonder \u2013 who are the HIDDEN WATCHERS watching and what does that imply?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-495\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/10\/AI3I4911-scaled-e1633091927854-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/10\/AI3I4911-scaled-e1633091927854-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/10\/AI3I4911-scaled-e1633091927854-1024x888.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/10\/AI3I4911-scaled-e1633091927854-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/10\/AI3I4911-scaled-e1633091927854-1536x1332.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/10\/AI3I4911-scaled-e1633091927854-346x300.jpg 346w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/10\/AI3I4911-scaled-e1633091927854.jpg 1939w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Gods Among Mortals<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">The \u201cgods\u201d have wings on their heads, the mortals do not. What does that signify? Where are they? Why are they all lined up in a row? That is for the viewer to speculate&#8230;&#8230;. It is my hope that the viewer of both these medals will look at familiar, iconic images in a new unexpected context. A quote that has long resonated with me is from Paul Klee who once said \u2013 \u201cArt does not reveal what is seen but rather makes the unseen visible\u201d. An artist or a camera can copy but my mission as an artist is to <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">make the viewer look at reality in a new light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-393\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/09\/AI3I4913-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/09\/AI3I4913-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/09\/AI3I4913-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/09\/AI3I4913-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/09\/AI3I4913-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/09\/AI3I4913-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2021\/09\/AI3I4913-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden Watchers Water patterns and eyes are some of my very favorite things. Have sculpted them in many forms over the years. By combining stylized images of both, I hope to create a medal that evokes an aura of mystery. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/meet-the-artists\/lindley-briggs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":393,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/496"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/amsa-medalxibit-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}