{"id":6670,"date":"2010-04-18T00:52:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T07:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/fecal-face-meredith-dittmar-interview\/"},"modified":"2010-04-18T00:52:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T07:52:17","slug":"fecal-face-meredith-dittmar-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/fecal-face-meredith-dittmar-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fecal Face &#8211; Meredith Dittmar Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/04\/levine2sm.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"420\" alt=\"levine2sm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fecalface.com\/SF\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1777&amp;Itemid=92\">\n<p>My process is always changing. Typically I collect images, diagrams, math and words and surround myself with them before I begin a set of pieces &#8211; though once I start working I only refer to them rarely. I throw it all into the brain blender and see what comes out. I usually work on several pieces at a time because creating certain effects in clay is labor intensive and then when something doesn&#8217;t fit it usually get used somewhere else. I try to sculpt freely, creating parts, using them or not, and see what begins to appear. I sketch the larger overreaching ideas as they come and maybe use them or not. I&#8217;m always playing with the balance of tackling the technical challenges the clay poses, with the desire to keep moving forward with more immediate techniques. Most importantly though, I try to keep my head out of it and work from a open &amp; quiet state.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fecalface.com\/SF\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1777&amp;Itemid=92\" ><cite>Fecal Face &#8211; Meredith Dittmar Interview<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My process is always changing. Typically I collect images, diagrams, math and words and surround myself with them before I begin a set of pieces &#8211; though once I start working I only refer to them rarely. I throw it all into the brain blender and see what comes out. I usually work on several &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/04\/fecal-face-meredith-dittmar-interview\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fecal Face &#8211; Meredith Dittmar Interview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1JA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}