{"id":2930,"date":"2015-12-10T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2019-12-24T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T21:43:17","slug":"aarstad-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/aarstad-thompson","title":{"rendered":"Aarstad Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIndian Collage with Fire<\/em>
\n11.5″x8.5″; scrap paper and glue sticks; 2014<\/p>\n

Aarstad Thompson<\/strong>
\n Roanoke, Virginia, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Currently, collage and assemblage are occupying my energies.\u00a0I let the flow of the making reveal itself to me and then I hold on gently and try to make ego-less decisions until the work\/collage can stand on its own.<\/p>\n

There is a phrase attributed to the late great Philip Guston.\u00a0It goes something like this: He said that when he entered his studio at night, he was often accompanied by enemies, critics, bill collectors, naysayers, etc. And as he started to work, slowly they would begin leaving one by one. And, he said that on a good night, even he left the room.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

I graduated from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Then, I quickly learned the art of “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”. I found that while following love, I sometimes was without a working studio. But, as a result, poetry and the beauty of the word rose to the top of my artistic pecking order. You never know what form the muse is bringing to the table. You just have to show up to eat.<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"aarstad-thompson-at-the-drive-in\"
\nfrom the “At the Drive-In” series
\n11.5″x8.5″; scrap paper and glue sticks; 2014<\/p>\n

\"aarstad-thompson-man-and-nature\"
\nfrom the “Man and Nature” series
\n11.5″x8.5″; scrap paper and glue sticks; 2014<\/p>\n

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\n11.5″x8.5″; scrap paper and glue sticks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roanoke, Virginia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[73],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aarstad-thompson-indian-collage-with-fire.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BNTD-Lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}