{"id":297,"date":"2018-02-14T00:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T05:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/?p=297"},"modified":"2018-02-14T00:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T05:07:34","slug":"instagram-post-2-pepe-untitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-2-pepe-untitled\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Post 2: Pepe, &#8220;Untitled&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-12.05.31-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-298\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-12.05.31-AM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-12.05.31-AM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-12.05.31-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-12.05.31-AM-768x765.png 768w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-12.05.31-AM-1024x1021.png 1024w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-12.05.31-AM.png 1204w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-12.05.31-AM-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This sculpture (\u201cuntitled\u201d) was on display at the Queering Space exhibition at Alfred University School of Art and Design. The exhibition displayed several pieces by queer artists and was centered on the question of \u201cwhat is a queer perspective and how does queerness meet form?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued by the fact that the piece took something natural and revered as pure\u2014a tree\u2014and reconstructed it out of something at first thought of as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/disgusting\/\">#disgusting<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/impure\/\">#impure<\/a>\u00a0\u2014fingernails. Of course, fingernails are not inherently disgusting, considering everyone has them, but there is a social taboo on them when not attached to the fingers themselves. This seemed very relevant to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/queer\/\">#queer<\/a>\u00a0experience: like the fingernails, queer people are often cast aside as disgusting. But that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/existence\/\">#existence<\/a>\u00a0is any less beautiful, much like the resulting tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/lgbtqexperiencesusa\/\">#lgbtqexperiencesusa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pepe, Sheila. \u201cUntitled.\u201d 1998, hydrocal, wire, plastic finger nails. Queering Space at Alfred University. 2 Feb.\u201328 Mar. 2018, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred.<\/p>\n<p>SB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sculpture (\u201cuntitled\u201d) was on display at the Queering Space exhibition at Alfred University School of Art and Design. The exhibition displayed several pieces by queer artists and was centered on the question of \u201cwhat is a queer perspective and how does queerness meet form?\u201d I was intrigued by the fact that the piece took &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-2-pepe-untitled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instagram Post 2: Pepe, &#8220;Untitled&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}