{"id":10094,"date":"2025-06-22T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=10094"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:44:26","slug":"hammerhead-with-steel-spheres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/hammerhead-with-steel-spheres\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammerhead with steel spheres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1038\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-art-sculpture-hammerhead-with-steel-spheres.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary anthropomorphic sculpture\" class=\"wp-image-10095\" style=\"width:545px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-art-sculpture-hammerhead-with-steel-spheres.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-art-sculpture-hammerhead-with-steel-spheres-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-art-sculpture-hammerhead-with-steel-spheres-888x1024.jpg 888w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-art-sculpture-hammerhead-with-steel-spheres-768x886.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hammerhead with steel spheres<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steel sculpture: hammerhead with spheres  10x5x2cm     May 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A sculpture composed of the head of a cross pein hammer with two steel spheres attached to its sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hammerheads standing on end have an interesting anthropomorphic quality to them. This anthropomorphism is exploited in this work to create an ambiguous form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work possibly suggests a human figure with spheres in the place of arms. Or it could suggest the head of a creature such as an insect with the spheres as huge eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The steel spheres are attached to the hammerhead by magnets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hammerhead with steel spheres Steel sculpture: hammerhead with spheres 10x5x2cm May 2025 A sculpture composed of the head of a cross pein hammer with two steel spheres attached to its sides. Hammerheads standing on end have an interesting anthropomorphic quality to them. This anthropomorphism is exploited in this work to create an ambiguous form. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[39,125,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10097,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions\/10097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}