{"id":68,"date":"2013-03-21T00:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T00:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russcoleman.com\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2014-08-31T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T18:50:37","slug":"seeds-of-recovery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/?page_id=68","title":{"rendered":"Seeds of Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69\" title=\"Seed of Recovery 1\" src=\"http:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed11-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed11-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed11.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>These works are the result of picking up stones as they laid around on a building site at Blackpool they had been pulled up through the ground as the site was piled for foundations. I also picked up the bent steel from the same site, the steel sat in a pile at the side of a large crusher and was the reinforcing left over from the crushing of old concrete.<\/p>\n<p>The Steel is left pretty much as it was found and attached to the stones. I chose to polish these two stones to bring out their unusual nature. The brown one is a mudstone and quartz node and the green one is some kind of granite. I would love to know the actual provenance and type of stone but alas I am no geologist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-70\" title=\"Seed of Recovery 2\" src=\"http:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-2-788x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-2-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-2-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-2.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>They remind me of drawings from my very first biology lessons with diagrams of seeds with plumial and radical shoots. Hence the seeds and there recovered nature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71\" title=\"Seed of Recovery 3\" src=\"http:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/seed-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>The third seed is literally picked up off my local beach this is a piece of concrete with the shoot still attached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These works are the result of picking up stones as they laid around on a building site at Blackpool they had been pulled up through the ground as the site was piled for foundations. I also picked up the bent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/?page_id=68\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/169"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russcoleman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}