{"id":8552,"date":"2007-04-15T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T11:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8552"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:40:27","slug":"helen-sear","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=helen-sear","title":{"rendered":"Helen Sear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Plantasia<\/strong><br \/>\nCentral Library<br \/>\nReferencing the exotic fantasy world of the Brangwyn Panels, Helen Sear\u2019s \u2018Plantasia\u2019 was photographed in Swansea\u2019s tropical hothouse.<br \/>\nThe proximity of Plantasia to the shopping complex provides both a contrast to and an extension of, the \u201cdream of escape\u201d described by Henri Rousseau when he visited the glass houses of Paris to study for his paintings of the jungle, and the closed eyes of Helen\u2019s subjects allows them a space of private reverie amidst the forensic gaze of the camera.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/locws-3-009.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/locws-3-lib-017.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/locws-3-lib-019.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plantasia<br \/>\nCentral Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13033,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[412],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8552","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13034,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8552\/revisions\/13034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}