{"id":468,"date":"2012-02-13T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2020-11-23T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:32:20","slug":"some-of-my-favorite-artists-dont-have-thumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/some-of-my-favorite-artists-dont-have-thumbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of My Favorite Artists Don’t Have Thumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone’s got an artistic impulse. Some use it, some don’t. But there’s no denying that there’s a part of us that just likes to make stuff – to rearrange the materials in the world so they better suit us. Maybe it’s what we do to survive, or something we’ve got to do if we want to stay in the community. Maybe we just want to make our place look nice, or leave our mark on the world.\u00a0Maybe we do it for love.<\/p>\n

And when I saw “we,” I don’t just mean humans. I mean everybody. There are some very creative creatures out there who have a great eye for form, function and design. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n

(I took the liberty of titling a few of these pieces. I hope the artists don’t mind)<\/p>\n

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\"Termite<\/a>

Termite Collective – “Our Town” – Architectural Habitat – Dirt \/ Saliva<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee – “More Bananas Please” – Paint on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Weaver

Weaver Bird – “Goldsworthy Tribute” – Installation – Twigs \/ Found Objects<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Pig

Pig – “Technicolor Snout” – Paint on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Tiger<\/a>

Tiger – “You’re Lucky It’s Not Your Neck” – Ink on paper<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Tent

Tent Caterpillar – “Untitled” – Web \/ Twigs<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Spider

Spiders (collaboration) – “Biggest Web Ever” – Webs \/ Twigs<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Wasp

Wasp Collective – “The Hive” – Dirt \/ Twigs \/ Saliva<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bower Bird – “Love on the Rocks” – Installation – Twigs \/ Stones<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Bower<\/a>

Bower Bird – “My Nest is Berry Nice” – Installation – Twigs \/ Found objects<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Bower<\/a>

Bower Bird – “Any Ladies Out There Like Blue Shit?” – Installation – Twigs \/ Found objects<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some examples of artwork by non-humans.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,106,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curious","category-essays","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}