{"id":9860,"date":"2015-03-12T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T11:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=9860"},"modified":"2022-02-01T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:00:25","slug":"graham-dolphin","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=graham-dolphin","title":{"rendered":"Graham Dolphin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Swansea Track 10<\/strong><br \/>Civic Centre Grounds<\/p>\n<p>The ghost town of Swansea sits on the edge of Death Valley, California. Once a mining boomtown in the 1860s little of the town remains apart from a memorial. The connections with the city go beyond the place name as it is suggested hundreds of Welsh miners made the trip to America and beyond to set up and run mines.<\/p>\n<p>Dolphin has recreated this memorial and placed it outside the Civic Centre, with ramshackle \u2018Wild West\u2019 signs made by Swansea schools pointing to other namesakes across the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?p=9834&amp;langswitch_lang=en\"><strong>Q&amp;A<\/strong><\/a> with Graham Dolphin<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/locws-graham-dolphin-civic-centre-swansea_1.jpg\" alt=\"locws international art across the city\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Swansea-monument02.jpg\" alt=\"locws international art across the city\" width=\"670\" height=\"503\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/locws-art-across-the-city-graham-dolphin.jpg\" alt=\"locws international art across the city\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_7198.jpg\" alt=\"locws international art across the city\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6729.jpg\" alt=\"locws international art across the city\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6726.jpg\" alt=\"locws international art across the city\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6570.jpg\" alt=\"locws international art across the city\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4540.jpg\" alt=\"locws international art across the city\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea Track 10<br \/>\nCivic Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9976,"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-9860","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\/9860","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=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12726,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/9860\/revisions\/12726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}