{"id":6801,"date":"2021-11-29T09:51:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2021-12-06T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T22:07:13","slug":"ouroboros-of-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2021\/ouroboros-of-the-self\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ouroboros of the Self&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero super  \"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2021\/12\/Gilmore-Aperture.jpg);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p>Kevin Gilmore \u201999 is an instructor in 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s Department of Art and Art History. He calls this self-portrait \u201ca glimpse into my process\u2014a collage, a stage, a cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilmore says, \u201cThe seated figure next to the books (including my 溏心vlog免费B站 undergrad art history book) is the thinker, seer, listener, critic. The middle figure is the visual artist and professor\u2014the studio stool is commonly used to teach positive\/negative space. The crouched figure is the sound-maker, the performer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"pullquote\">\u201cMy role as a teacher is to help each student discover their own creative voice and find ways to link it to real-world situations.\u201d<br><em>\u2014Kevin Gilmore \u201999<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy role as a teacher,\u201d Gilmore says, \u201cis to help each student discover their own creative voice and find ways to link it to real-world situations.\u201d At 溏心vlog免费B站, his classes are filled with students from various disciplines, which, he says, \u201cchallenges me to learn about each student and change my approach to help each one find their artistic voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilmore, who embraces the label of interdisciplinary artist, works in a variety of media, including paint, pencil, camera, and sound. Doing so, he says, allows him to change his medium to best suit his message. While painting has long been his primary medium, he says a paintbrush can also inspire him to tap on the canvas or drop the brush on the floor to explore the brush&#8217;s resonant sound, and listen to the colors on the canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeeing a brush for just a brush makes me a painter,\u201d Gilmore says. \u201cFinding 100 other ways to use it makes me an artist.\u201d \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Barbara Caron<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Gilmore \u201999, an instructor in 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s Department of Art and Art History, calls this self-portrait \u201ca glimpse into my process\u2014a collage, a stage, a cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2021","architecture-aperture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7249,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/7249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}