{"id":425,"date":"2009-04-14T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/plastic_bottles_in_the_venetia\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:00:09","slug":"plastic_bottles_in_the_venetia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/plastic_bottles_in_the_venetia.html","title":{"rendered":"Plastic bottles in the Venetian vein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glass in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fossilfly.com\/Venetian_Glass_Link_to_Pilchuck_School.htm\">Venetian style<\/a> is as common in Seattle as coffee. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dantemarioni.com\/\">Dante Marioni<\/a> used to blow a few each morning, like a pianist warming up with c-scales. Because they are common, their elaborate beauty offers the same pleasure as eating a whole coconut cake. Somewhere between the third and fourth piece, disgust lays waste to desire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharimendelson.com\/\">Shari Mendelson<\/a>&#8216;s Venetians are a restorative. She makes them by collaging bits of plastic bottles together with a glue gun. Who wouldn&#8217;t belly up to the bar for a drink in one of them?<\/p>\n<p>(Click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/shariplasticbottles-4998.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/shariplasticbottles-4998.html','popup','width=432,height=316,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/shariplasticbottles-thumb-300x219-4998.jpg\" alt=\"shariplasticbottles.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>She&#8217;s also expert in more ancient forms. Drop one and it will bounce.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/shariplasticancient-5001.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/shariplasticancient-5001.html','popup','width=432,height=223,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/shariplasticancient-thumb-300x154-5001.jpg\" alt=\"shariplasticancient.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/span>She&#8217;s featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhouse.net\/current\/index.html\"><i>Tikkunim: Jewish roots\/Ecological Art<\/i> at Howard House<\/a> through <font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><b><b><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/font><\/b><\/b><\/font>May 2.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass in the Venetian style is as common in Seattle as coffee. Dante Marioni used to blow a few each morning, like a pianist warming up with c-scales. Because they are common, their elaborate beauty offers the same pleasure as eating a whole coconut cake. Somewhere between the third and fourth piece, disgust lays waste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}