{"id":1837,"date":"2019-07-17T15:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2019-07-22T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:27:17","slug":"yoruba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/summer-2019\/yoruba\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoruba"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>JASON SMITH \u201910<\/h2>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith-200x300.png\" alt=\"Jason Smith\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith-364x546.png 364w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith-500x750.png 500w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith-1000x1500.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith-1280x1920.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Jason-Smith.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\">Jason Smith has always created art. Growing up in Newport, Rhode Island, his family encouraged his creativity.<\/p>\n<p>His longstanding interest in mythology, religion, and ancient cultures inspired a series that explores belief systems and their artifacts\u2014relief carvings, codices, sculptures, and monuments. Part of that series, Yoruba depicts a creation myth of a marshy world to which the gods descended on spiderwebs, enlisting a pigeon, a five-toed hen, and a chameleon to solidify and dry out the earth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2393\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-half_column wp-image-2393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical-500x693.jpg\" alt=\"Yoruba, oil painting by Jason Smith\" width=\"500\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical-500x693.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical-768x1064.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical-364x505.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical-1000x1386.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical-1280x1774.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Yoruba-Vertical.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Yoruba<\/em>, Jason Smith, 18\u201d x 24\u201d, oil on Dura Lar, 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JASON SMITH \u201910 Jason Smith has always created art. Growing up in Newport, Rhode Island, his family encouraged his creativity. His longstanding interest in mythology, religion, and ancient cultures inspired a series that explores belief systems and their artifacts\u2014relief carvings, codices, sculptures, and monuments. Part of that series, Yoruba depicts a creation myth of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,49],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2019","tag-artist","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","architecture-back-cover"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}