{"id":301,"date":"2010-06-06T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=301"},"modified":"2010-06-06T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T13:01:17","slug":"weekend_scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/06\/weekend_scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"market.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/market.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"needles.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/needles.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/>I&#8217;ve been reading Shannon Hayes&#8217;s newish book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Radical-Homemakers-Reclaiming-Domesticity-Consumer\/dp\/0979439116\"><i>Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture<\/i><\/a>, and I&#8217;m really getting a lot out of the related thinking\/reflection on lifestyle choices it inspires. Hayes interviewed quite a few people in rural-to-urban situations about how they are creating their lives (less spending, making doing) and the book includes many of their stories and a lot of interesting history about homemaking before the word became so loaded. It&#8217;s both an inspiring and challenging read; highly recommend. <\/p>\n<p>As a person deeply involved in creative fields, though ones more focused on paper and performance, I struggle to make space for the private, family-based creative acts that go into homemaking. However, even though such work often gets short shrift in contemporary society&#8211;spend more time at the office and let stops at Olive Garden and Target do the rest!&#8211;a homemade life is always where I find the most emotionally satisfying creative opportunities. But I&#8217;m also coming to understand that that&#8217;s also where I can find equally intense <i>intellectual<\/i> satisfaction. Like anything, house work can be mindless (cleaning probably always kinda is), but it will be what you put into it. I&#8217;m not about to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/06\/magazine\/06Squatters-t.html?ref=magazine\">go freegan or anything<\/a>, I don&#8217;t think, but I am going to be on the lookout for a wider variety of home-based creative opportunities and see how it feels to shift a bit more of my creative focus from public pursuits to private ones. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder if professional artists (in the big definition of artist sense) these days, faced with the pressures of time and opportunity and the siren song of their Facebook pages, feel the need to skip investing in their personal creative lives in order to put enough time into meeting their career aims. Is it an element out of balance? What impact might changing that up have on the lives and work of artists and the local communities they inhabit?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"food.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/food.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"225\" width=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*Bread recipe from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101cookbooks.com\/archives\/sixseed-soda-bread-recipe.html\">101 Cookbooks<\/a>. And who could say no to rainbow juice? (Clearly, I have no children.) <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Shannon Hayes&#8217;s newish book Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, and I&#8217;m really getting a lot out of the related thinking\/reflection on lifestyle choices it inspires. Hayes interviewed quite a few people in rural-to-urban situations about how they are creating their lives (less spending, making doing) and the book includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}