{"id":3255,"date":"2020-03-20T18:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:23:57","slug":"to-stay-above-the-pull-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/spring-2020\/to-stay-above-the-pull-and-run\/","title":{"rendered":"To stay above the pull and run"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mea Duke ’14
\n22\u201d x 26\u201d, oil on canvas, 2017
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Award-winning artist Mea Duke has a unique perspective. Her paintings, prints, and sculptures often depict marine-related subjects, such as container ships or life jackets.<\/p>\n

For many of her paintings, like this one, she references open-source press photos documenting modern maritime disasters to call attention to the operational reality of the global shipping industry. Here, she depicts a sinking barge in the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking to the water,\u201d says Duke, \u201cis a deeply substantial part of our collective histories and modern existence. It embodies all of the challenges, dangers, triumphs, and absurdities that come with the territory.\u201d \u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mea Duke ’14 22\u201d x 26\u201d, oil on canvas, 2017 meaduke.com Award-winning artist Mea Duke has a unique perspective. Her paintings, prints, and sculptures often depict marine-related subjects, such as container ships or life jackets. For many of her paintings, like this one, she references open-source press photos documenting modern maritime disasters to call attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2020","architecture-back-cover"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","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=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}