{"id":9225,"date":"2024-08-27T19:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2024-08-31T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T18:10:10","slug":"anthropomorphic-found-object-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/anthropomorphic-found-object-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropomorphic found object sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-sculpture-found-object.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary sculpture anthropomorphic found object with humour\" class=\"wp-image-9226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-sculpture-found-object.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-sculpture-found-object-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-sculpture-found-object-768x588.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Homo Habilis &#8211; Man the Toolmaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steel pliers, ceramic head, magnet.  15x15x1cm     August 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An anthropomorphic sculpture composed of a pair of pliers to which a ceramic head has been attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made the head about thirty years ago in around 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I call the piece <em>Homo Habilis<\/em> after the extinct species of human that lived in Eastern and Southern Africa about two million years ago. <em>Homo Habilis<\/em> literally means Handy Man, which in my piece nicely links to the handyman&#8217;s tool, the pliers. <em>Homo Habilis<\/em> is also referred to as &#8216;Man the Toolmaker&#8217;, which links equally nicely with the piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homo Habilis &#8211; Man the Toolmaker Steel pliers, ceramic head, magnet. 15x15x1cm August 2024 An anthropomorphic sculpture composed of a pair of pliers to which a ceramic head has been attached. I made the head about thirty years ago in around 1994. I call the piece Homo Habilis after the extinct species of human that [&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":[76,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225"}],"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=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}