{"id":937,"date":"2025-02-25T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=937"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:42:40","slug":"loop-my-loop-helen-chadwick-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Loop my Loop&#8217;, Helen Chadwick, 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/richardsaltoun-helen-chadwick-loop-my-loop-1991.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1597\" data-original-width=\"1197\" height=\"611\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjN2fVVbUiHhgdHS-NVJZAcR5siLGLua6q7xcLZnrbwtebYdd7cHc5V5DGnTmUscH39VIodw0QLTCI8mEETQm-jElROWZiZGHaKnj1MKce511yCLmz4WYe93pp_Cw9IHxTsN2xuww3IXUIseEarmTkW0-npr0eSpCxFNOwtuBCaRGyoDdYazT3pC7UBA88J\/w458-h611\/richardsaltoun-helen-chadwick-loop-my-loop-1991.jpg\" width=\"458\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about taxidermy pieces reminded me of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardsaltoun.com\/artists\/101-helen-chadwick\/works\/17928-helen-chadwick-loop-my-loop-1991\/\">Helen Chadwick &#8216;Loop my Loop&#8217;<\/a>. I really want to encompass the same quality of paradox, viscerality and transgression in my wishbone\/ clitoris piece.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #585858;, Garamond, serif;font-size: 16.5px\">Here, Chadwick disrupts our expectations; the most ornate image associated with beauty is made repellent through its juxtaposition with something also natural, but out of context, visceral and grotesque. Hair, a fetishised form of femininity as well as a form of &#8216;memento mori&#8217;, was often incorporated in Victorian jewellery to commemorate a loved one. In this light box, Chadwick links hair with the physical remains of death, a poignant reminder of death and loss.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #585858;, Garamond, serif;font-size: 16.5px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #585858;, Garamond, serif;font-size: 16.5px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Thinking about taxidermy pieces reminded me of&nbsp;Helen Chadwick &#8216;Loop my Loop&#8217;. I really want to encompass the same quality of paradox, viscerality and transgression in my wishbone\/ clitoris piece. &#8220;Here, Chadwick disrupts our expectations; the most ornate image associated with beauty is made repellent through its juxtaposition with something also natural, but out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}