{"id":10183,"date":"2018-06-20T21:51:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10183"},"modified":"2020-06-20T22:32:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T21:32:33","slug":"daily_1278_-_mosaics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/06\/20\/daily_1278_-_mosaics\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1278 &#8211; schoolyard mosaics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1278_mosaic_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nEarlier this year, new benches turned up in the schoolyard at Sp\u00e5nga gymnasium (high school). We pass through that yard quite often because it&#8217;s the shortest way to a nearby Pokemon Go gym.<\/p>\n<p>The schoolyard has gotten a facelift in general, but the mosaic benches are in a class of their own. They are works of art, and I am curious to know who the artist might be. I sent photos to a local newspaper and hope that they might have resources to find out more about the benches.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the way the angular turquoise and white pieces evoke shimmering water, and the iridescence of the cat&#8217;s eye &#8211; or the way the bottom of a broken plate or bowl becomes a knothole.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1278_mosaic_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1278_mosaic_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1278_mosaic_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, new benches turned up in the schoolyard at Sp\u00e5nga gymnasium (high school). We pass through that yard quite often because it&#8217;s the shortest way to a nearby Pokemon Go gym. The schoolyard has gotten a facelift in general, but the mosaic benches are in a class of their own. They are works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,774,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-neighbourhood","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12920,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions\/12920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}