{"id":2664,"date":"2023-10-03T18:27:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/?page_id=2664"},"modified":"2023-10-05T19:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:09:20","slug":"julia-j-wolf-long-way-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/julia-j-wolf-long-way-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia J Wolfe Long Way 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Julia J. Wolfe<\/h1>\n<h2>We Like To Take The Long Way<\/h2>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, sans-serif\">Artist Statement<\/span><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, sans-serif\">There\u2019s something restorative about sitting in a place, doing nothing but observing and listening. Not even actively thinking, just being and noticing. These days, a lot of my thinking revolves around the idea of time, and how modern society has conditioned us to believe, obsess, stress, and grieve over all the time we have supposedly lost. The English language contains transactional phrases like \u201cspending time\u201d and \u201cpaying attention,\u201d as if these are currencies one can deposit into a savings account and accumulate interest over (well, you know) time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, sans-serif\">\u201cWe Like to Take the Long Way\u201d delights in that cheesy, overused expression that \u201cthe journey matters more than the destination.\u201d Clich\u00e9? Yes indeed, but it addresses a universal truth. Rather than submitting to the hurry-up-and-get-there culture of forging the most direct and efficient route into that perfect future life (which is almost always a delusion), this installation embraces those ordinary, playful, and perhaps un-understandable moments that seem to be without a point, purpose, or economical value.<\/span><\/p>\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia J. Wolfe We Like To Take The Long Way Artist Statement There\u2019s something restorative about sitting in a place, doing nothing but observing and listening. Not even actively thinking, just being and noticing. These days, a lot of my thinking revolves around the idea of time, and how modern society has conditioned us to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":696,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/mercer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}