{"id":6295,"date":"2010-11-12T02:02:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T10:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2010-11-12T02:02:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T10:02:39","slug":"obsession-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/obsession-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsession + Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Olek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6296\" title=\"Olek\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Olek.jpg?resize=533%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Olek.jpg?w=533&amp;ssl=1 533w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Olek.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Olek is a Polish-born artist who has chosen to \u201ccrochet everything that enters her space.\u201d A strange decision perhaps for a graduate of a cultural studies degree, but even stranger are her motives, \u201cin order to do two things at once: watch movies and make art.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Olek\u2019s artists\u2019 statement: \u201cA loop after a loop. Hour after hour my madness becomes crochet. Life and art are inseparable. <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnicethat.com\/articles\/3235-olek\" target=\"_blank\">(via)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I LOVE obsessive artists! Olek&#8217;s work must be amazing to see in person. I love how she has taken a craft associated with prim old ladies and made it crazy and vaguely sinister.<\/p>\n<p>I love people with grand obsessions. As long as they&#8217;re not aimed at me, of course. <strong>Werner Herzog<\/strong> movies, stories of psychotic jealousy, people who devote their lives in pursuit of some maniacal passion, it&#8217;s all good. I like artists whose work verges on OCD.<\/p>\n<p>I shared my fascination with the brilliant, obsessive <strong>Liza Lou<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/2008\/06\/08\/in-awe-of-liza-lou\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;\u00a0 And there are some high resolution images of Olek&#8217;s work over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/?p=1650\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olek is a Polish-born artist who has chosen to \u201ccrochet everything that enters her space.\u201d A strange decision perhaps for a graduate of a cultural studies degree, but even stranger are her motives, \u201cin order to do two things at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/obsession-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[711,236],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1Dx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}