{"id":8779,"date":"2021-04-18T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:28:05","slug":"a-visual-metaphor-for-mental-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/a-visual-metaphor-for-mental-states\/","title":{"rendered":"A visual metaphor for mental states."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1077\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/surreal-sketch-padlock-head-key.jpg?fit=900%2C1077&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"surreal drawing anthropomorphic padlock\" class=\"wp-image-8780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/surreal-sketch-padlock-head-key.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/surreal-sketch-padlock-head-key-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/surreal-sketch-padlock-head-key-856x1024.jpg 856w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/surreal-sketch-padlock-head-key-768x919.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A person with a padlock as a head<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital sketch    2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A sketch of a person with a head in the form of a padlock. The person is carrying a walking stick in the form of a key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve used a padlock as a head in several works. I think that it probably signifies mental states of various kinds. States that need unlocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key in this sketch probably acts as an aid or a crutch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person with a padlock as a head Digital sketch 2014 A sketch of a person with a head in the form of a padlock. The person is carrying a walking stick in the form of a key. I&#8217;ve used a padlock as a head in several works. I think that it probably signifies mental [&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":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779"}],"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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}