{"id":8758,"date":"2023-04-17T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:50:52","slug":"hammers-bound-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/hammers-bound-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammers bound together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-three-P1004133-762x1024.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary sculpture - hammers\" class=\"wp-image-8744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-three-P1004133-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-three-P1004133-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-three-P1004133-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-three-P1004133.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hammers bound together<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hammers, shoe laces    March 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Three hammers bound together with shoe laces. The hammers are different sizes, creating a dynamic visual effect and implying a differential power status between the hammers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that the hammers are bound together renders them useless as hammers, making them impotent. However, maybe they&#8217;re not bound together to reduce their power \u2013 maybe they are bound together to create unity. Maybe the price of unity is a reduction in individual power. But is the price of unit a reduction in group power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-sculpture-P1004059-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"hammers in art\" class=\"wp-image-8743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-sculpture-P1004059-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-sculpture-P1004059-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-sculpture-P1004059.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-P1004036-788x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Hammer sculpture\" class=\"wp-image-8742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-P1004036-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-P1004036-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-P1004036-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/hammers-P1004036.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:59px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"661\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tremenheere-hammer-milk-bottle-men-P1004091.jpg\" alt=\"Hammer wall sculpture\" class=\"wp-image-8757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tremenheere-hammer-milk-bottle-men-P1004091.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tremenheere-hammer-milk-bottle-men-P1004091-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tremenheere-hammer-milk-bottle-men-P1004091-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The hammers exhibited in my solo show at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is a study of power, restraint and impotence. It&#8217;s also a nice composition. The inspiration came in my studio when I placed one hammer directly on top of another one (By chance or deliberately? I don&#8217;t know).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hammers bound together Hammers, shoe laces March 2022 Three hammers bound together with shoe laces. The hammers are different sizes, creating a dynamic visual effect and implying a differential power status between the hammers. The fact that the hammers are bound together renders them useless as hammers, making them impotent. However, maybe they&#8217;re not bound [&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":[125,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758"}],"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=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}