{"id":10384,"date":"2026-05-30T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:28:52","slug":"saddlehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/saddlehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddlehead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Saddlehead\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1196958764?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saddlehead. Sculptural assemblage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ceramic vessel, Brooks leather bicycle saddle, wooden stool.   145x60x60cm. 2010<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An assemblage composed of a ceramic vessel and a bicycle saddle.  The saddle is attached to a bicycle seat pillar which is inserted into the narrow neck of the vessel. The vessel is placed on a tall stool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The zoomorphic effect of the assemblage is to suggest some sort of creature, possibly a bird. The saddle resembles a head and the ceramic vessel a body. The stool may be a perch for a bird or even legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saddlehead. Sculptural assemblage Ceramic vessel, Brooks leather bicycle saddle, wooden stool. 145x60x60cm. 2010 An assemblage composed of a ceramic vessel and a bicycle saddle. The saddle is attached to a bicycle seat pillar which is inserted into the narrow neck of the vessel. The vessel is placed on a tall stool. The zoomorphic effect of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,16],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384"}],"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=10384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10385,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions\/10385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}