{"id":1780,"date":"2009-06-03T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2018-11-01T00:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:49:09","slug":"blowin-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/blowin-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowin&#8217; in the wind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishfly_detail.jpg\" alt=\"fishfly_detail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishfly_weathervane.jpg\" alt=\"fishfly_weathervane.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishfly_gallery_winnipeg_beach.jpg\" alt=\"fishfly_gallery_winnipeg_beach.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening I had the chance to install the <em>Fishfly Weathervane<\/em> I built a few weeks back\u2026 it\u2019s now swiveling atop the Fishfly Gallery (where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatclayart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ev<\/a> exhibits some of her ceramic works). About two meters in overall length, the assemblage piece incorporates a variety of found junk and old objects\u2014the body is a piece of driftwood decorated with brass strips from a hideous old wall clock, the large wing is cut from an old steel snow shovel, the two smaller wings are halves of a hammered brass plate, the head is a copper bowl (with drilled looney-coin eyes), antennae are the ends of two fishing rods, legs consist of old bits of rusted pliers and a rod handle, the hollow aluminum tail strands are from Ev\u2019s old TV antennae (she tossed her set out years ago). The gleaming beast straddles an old railing banister tipped with a wood-fired ceramic arrowhead, and the swivel mount re-purposes an old roller-skate wheel (with nice friction-free bearings).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>A number of people have already expressed interest in other commissioned weathervanes\u2026 time will tell where this may lead.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba Yesterday evening I had the chance to install the Fishfly Weathervane I built a few weeks back\u2026 it\u2019s now swiveling atop the Fishfly Gallery (where Ev exhibits some of her ceramic works). About two meters in overall length, the assemblage piece incorporates a variety of found junk and old objects\u2014the body is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,8,21,11,15,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16417,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}