{"id":10571,"date":"2026-09-23T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:17:58","slug":"man-with-a-hammer-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/man-with-a-hammer-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with a hammer head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1070\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer_Head_Person_Bending_Nails.jpg\" alt=\".Contemporary art digital drawing of a person with a hammer as a head. An artwork about oppression\n\" class=\"wp-image-10573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer_Head_Person_Bending_Nails.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer_Head_Person_Bending_Nails-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer_Head_Person_Bending_Nails-861x1024.jpg 861w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer_Head_Person_Bending_Nails-768x913.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hammerhead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital sketch in Procreate. 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hammers, along with other handyman tools, are a frequent motif in my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this sketch a hammerhead forms the head of a person. The person is leaning forward and is looking at some nails that have been hammered into the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A person with a hammer as a head in an artwork would normally be thought of as a symbol of oppression, however this particular person doesn\u2019t look that much like an oppressor to me. But then again, oppressors don&#8217;t have to look like oppressors do they? This one looks almost surprised to see the nails. What\u2019s his relationship with the nails?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hammerhead Digital sketch in Procreate. 2025 Hammers, along with other handyman tools, are a frequent motif in my work. In this sketch a hammerhead forms the head of a person. The person is leaning forward and is looking at some nails that have been hammered into the ground. A person with a hammer as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,86,17],"tags":[139,122,108,126],"class_list":["post-10571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-art","category-digital-art","category-sketches","tag-hammer","tag-hand-tools","tag-oppression","tag-political-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=10571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}