{"id":3374,"date":"2022-08-05T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:04:54","slug":"making-a-path-to-the-beloved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/paintings\/2022\/3374\/making-a-path-to-the-beloved\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKING A PATH TO THE BELOVED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/paintings\/2022\/3374\/making-a-path-to-the-beloved\/attachment\/making-a-path-to-the-beloved\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3375\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-1024x674.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-768x505.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-1536x1010.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-2048x1347.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-690x454.jpeg 690w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Making-a-Path-to-the-Beloved-980x645.jpeg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acrylic, paper, linen, oil pastel, charcoal, soluble graphite on two canvases, diptych. 2022. 80 x 120 cm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve torn my scarf into shreds; I&#8217;m all wrapped up in a blanket.<br \/>\nI took off my finery of pearls and coral, and strung a garland of wildwood flowers.<br \/>\nWith my tears, I watered the creeper of love that I planted;<br \/>\nNow the creeper has grown spread all over, and borne the fruit of bliss.\u201d (Meera Bai)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/paintings\/2022\/3374\/making-a-path-to-the-beloved\/attachment\/wheeler-making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3376\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-690x518.jpeg 690w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wheeler-Making-a-path-to-the-beloved-detail-1-980x735.jpeg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a painting that was a puzzle for months, until I stuck the large pieces of linen onto it, which freed me up to fit it into this series, give it a subject and a reason to be finished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/paintings\/2022\/3374\/making-a-path-to-the-beloved\/attachment\/img_0637\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3377\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0637.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1018\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0637.jpeg 1018w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0637-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0637-768x508.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0637-690x456.jpeg 690w, https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0637-980x648.jpeg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acrylic, paper, linen, oil pastel, charcoal, soluble graphite on two canvases, diptych. 2022. 80 x 120 cm. \u201cI&#8217;ve torn my scarf into shreds; I&#8217;m all wrapped up in a blanket. I took off my finery of pearls and coral, and strung a garland of wildwood flowers. With my tears, I watered the creeper of love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134,139,126,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-134","category-lets-go-to-that-land","category-mixed-media","category-paintings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HJk7-Sq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janewheeler.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}