{"id":606,"date":"2012-07-17T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/mouth-of-sand\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T01:53:00","slug":"mouth-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/mouth-of-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouth of Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/colossal\/~3\/08RayeZsBrU\/\">Mouth of Sand<\/a>: <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mouth of Sand sculpture sand photography \" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/sand-2.jpg?resize=625%2C469\" title=\"Mouth of Sand\" width=\"625\"><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mouth of Sand sculpture sand photography \" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/815-raw-Bembona_V2_4-640x512.jpg?resize=625%2C500\" title=\"Mouth of Sand\" width=\"625\"><br \/>Stumbled onto this striking 2010 photograph by Cuban artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artstar.com\/artwork-mouth-of-sand-by-liset-castillo-787.html\">Liset Castillo<\/a> while poking around on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artstar.com\/\">ArtStar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In my new body of work, \u201cHuman Studies,\u201d from 2010, I subvert notions of enduring beauty with life-size images of women sculpted in a labor-intensive process out of sand, which I then photographed before destroying them. I create life-size sand sculptures of models typically found in high-gloss fashion magazines, photograph the works in sand and then I destroy them as a commentary on the ephemeral nature of beauty, America\u2019s obsession with youth culture and decay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See more of her work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackandwhiteartgallery.com\/castillo_new2.html\">Black and White Gallery<\/a>.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/colossal\/~4\/08RayeZsBrU\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mouth of Sand: Stumbled onto this striking 2010 photograph by Cuban artist Liset Castillo while poking around on ArtStar. In my new body of work, \u201cHuman Studies,\u201d from 2010, I subvert notions of enduring beauty with life-size images of women sculpted in a labor-intensive process out of sand, which I then photographed before destroying them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}