{"id":204,"date":"2017-03-24T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2017-03-24T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:48:53","slug":"204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Chris Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My niece&#8217;s most recent, stunning portrayal of me (immediately below)&#8230;this time in the bold medium of pencil and paper. Two and a half years ago, we commissioned the same artist in the same task (photo on bottom). At that time, the artist, who simply goes by the name of &#8220;Catherine&#8221;, made the provocative decision of using crayon, resulting in a piece that garnered \u00a3950,000 ($1.35 million) in auction. One clearly must reflect on the issue of &#8220;hands&#8221; in both pieces. In the earlier pie<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ce, the subject appears to have no hands. In the more recent, the artist introduces the theme of speculation as the viewer is left to wonder, &#8220;Does Uncle Chris not have hands or are they simply &#8216;off canvas&#8217;?&#8221; Another critical speculation facing the viewer as they travel from the older piece to the new: &#8220;Has Uncle Chris employed some form of hair loss treatment in the past two years?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/UncleChris2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/UncleChris2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/UncleChris2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22\" src=\"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/UncleChris-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/UncleChris-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/UncleChris-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/UncleChris-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/UncleChris.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My niece&#8217;s most recent, stunning portrayal of me (immediately below)&#8230;this time in the bold medium of pencil and paper. Two and a half years ago, we commissioned the same artist in the same task (photo on bottom). At that time, the artist, who simply goes by the name of &#8220;Catherine&#8221;, made the provocative decision of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/?p=204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uncle Chris Portraits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29,30,31,32],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-little-stuff","tag-niece","tag-portrait","tag-drawing","tag-child","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2ImM6-204","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takethepatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}