{"id":2349,"date":"2009-02-05T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2009-02-05T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:07:23","slug":"well-at-least-the-hunters-think-twice-before-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Well, At Least the Hunters Think Twice Before Shooting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donsimonart.com\/images\/bl_if_1_gallery.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Don Simon\u2019s Industrial Forest 1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bl_if_1_gallery.jpg\" title=\"Don Simon\u2019s Industrial Forest 1\" alt=\"Don Simon\u2019s Industrial Forest 1\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By employing astounding technique, colored pencil artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donsimonart.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Don Simon<\/a> deftly visualizes a mournful and demoralized world. It&#8217;s one where man&#8217;s increasing industrialization of the biosphere has not only pushed humans and animals into ultradirect contact and competition, but where the natural landscape has begun to frustratingly morph into the mechanized metalliscape. As a New Jersey native, where some of the nation&#8217;s most gorgeous terrain borders some of its most hideous, he knows of whence he speaks.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donsimonart.com\/images\/bl_if_1_gallery.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Industrial Forest 1,&#8221;<\/a> above, for example, from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donsimonart.com\/unnaturalism_1.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Unnaturalism I<\/em> series<\/a>, deer dart between and attempt to hide amidst a thicket of silver metal pipelines. (The grove&#8217;s absolute density becomes more clear in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donsimonart.com\/if_trp_gallery.html\"  target=\"_blank\">the triptych<\/a> from which this image is taken.)<\/p>\n<p>By mankind literally doing to the creation what Simon does figuratively, &#8220;We are forcing other species to deal with compromised, damaged or destroyed ecosystems,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donsimonart.com\/statement.html\"  target=\"_blank\">says the artist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, as U. of Texas prof Robert Jensen reminds us, quoting a friend, &#8220;Nature always bats last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/papernstitchblog.com\/2009\/02\/03\/don-simon\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Paper &#8216;n Stitch<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By employing astounding technique, colored pencil artist Don Simon deftly visualizes a mournful and demoralized world. It&#8217;s one where man&#8217;s increasing industrialization of the biosphere has not only pushed humans and animals into ultradirect contact and competition, but where the natural landscape has begun to frustratingly morph into the mechanized metalliscape. As a New Jersey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,12,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}