{"id":39279,"date":"2022-08-19T01:49:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=39279"},"modified":"2022-08-18T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T23:40:09","slug":"sculptures-inspired-by-kahlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/sculptures-inspired-by-kahlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptures inspired by Kahlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cShe Was Like a Walking Flower, Centred by a Rod of Steel,\u201d by Suzy Birstein, inspired by Frida Kahlo\u2019s \u201cSelf-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe Was Like a Walking Flower, Centred by a Rod of Steel,\u201d by Suzy Birstein, was inspired by Frida Kahlo\u2019s \u201cSelf-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39281\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-19-toc.19.She-Was-Like-a-Walking-Flower-by-Suzy-Birstein.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-19-toc.19.She-Was-Like-a-Walking-Flower-by-Suzy-Birstein-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo - \u201cShe Was Like a Walking Flower, Centred by a Rod of Steel,\u201d by Suzy Birstein, inspired by Frida Kahlo\u2019s \u201cSelf-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940\u201d\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-19-toc.19.She-Was-Like-a-Walking-Flower-by-Suzy-Birstein-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aug-19-toc.19.She-Was-Like-a-Walking-Flower-by-Suzy-Birstein.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cShe Was Like a Walking Flower, Centred by a Rod of Steel,\u201d by Suzy Birstein, inspired by Frida Kahlo\u2019s \u201cSelf-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her artist\u2019s statement, Birstein writes about this ceramic work: \u201c\u2018Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940,\u2019 is one of my favourite Frida self-portraits. In it, she is at her most beautiful, surrounded by flowers, butterflies, her monkey and cat. Her direct stare compels us to reflect upon her body in pain, her complex relationship with Diego [Rivera] and her relentless drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe metal headdress references an iron-clad spirit, topped with a golden bird holding my mother\u2019s pill box. Both Frida and my mother required medication to alleviate their pain, which they housed in these beautiful containers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birstein\u2019s solo exhibit, When I Have Wings to Fly, opened at the Port Moody Arts Centre in the Canadian Pacific Gallery July 28 and runs to Sept. 4. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/pomoarts.ca\/exhibitions\/when-i-have-wings-to-fly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pomoarts.ca\/exhibitions\/when-i-have-wings-to-fly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Port Moody Arts Centre<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe Was Like a Walking Flower, Centred by a Rod of Steel,\u201d by Suzy Birstein, inspired by Frida Kahlo\u2019s \u201cSelf-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940.\u201d \u201cShe Was Like a Walking Flower, Centred by a Rod of Steel,\u201d by Suzy Birstein, was inspired by Frida Kahlo\u2019s \u201cSelf-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940.\u201d In her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[2466,21698,21697,21699,4370,9017,1633],"class_list":["post-39279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-arts","tag-art","tag-ceramics","tag-frida-kahlo","tag-pomoarts","tag-port-moody","tag-sculpture","tag-suzy-birstein"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}