{"id":762,"date":"2012-03-05T21:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T04:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldcoffeemedia.com\/EOUART\/?p=762"},"modified":"2019-10-08T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:34:35","slug":"andrea-eskelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/profile\/andrea-eskelin\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Eskelin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This work represents an artistic interpretation of university life and the social construct surrounding higher education.\u00a0 It summarizes the perception of one individual visually portraying emotions involved in being torn between life altering choices.\u00a0 What major do I choose?\u00a0 Can I make art and pursue music?\u00a0 Students continuously live with parents\u2019, teachers\u2019, peers\u2019, and others\u2019 ideas and persuasions about what is best for them.\u00a0 Finding the answers for themselves and ultimately making choices that shape each student as an individual is the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>For me, these three paintings exist as a narrative of my higher education experience.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Diminished<\/em>\u00a0represents the emotion of feeling stationary and hopeless.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Suspended\u00a0<\/em>depicts the stage of searching freely and the guise of persuasion, and\u00a0<em>To Play in the Evening<\/em>\u00a0illustrates wonder and contentment.\u00a0 I am developing an understanding of these stages as I make choices regarding my education.\u00a0 This work acts to continuously remind myself not to be consumed by stages in this cycle.<\/p>\n<table id=\"images\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"20\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"242\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/alumni\/Alumni%20Gallery%201\/AlumniGallery1A.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/images\/ToPlayintheEvening.jpg\" alt=\"to play in the evening\/ play\" width=\"171\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><em>To Play in the Evening<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n<p>12\u201dx15\u201d<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/alumni\/Alumni%20Gallery%201\/AlumniGallery1B.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/images\/Suspended.jpg\" alt=\"suspended paining by annie\" width=\"159\" height=\"208\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Suspended&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n<p>12\u201dx15\u201d<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/images\/Eskelin.Flounder.forweb_000.jpg\" alt=\"Annie's welded fish\" width=\"273\" height=\"204\" \/>Flounder and the Soul&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>steel, rubber and oil on paper<\/p>\n<p>16\u2033 x 10\u2033 x 3\u2033<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This work represents an artistic interpretation of university life and the social construct surrounding higher education.\u00a0 It summarizes the perception of one individual visually portraying emotions involved in being torn between life altering choices.\u00a0 What major do I choose?\u00a0 Can I make art and pursue music?\u00a0 Students continuously live with parents\u2019, teachers\u2019, peers\u2019, and others\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}