{"id":1944,"date":"2015-10-30T17:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T17:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.wordpress.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2015-10-30T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T17:17:43","slug":"song-for-a-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/2015\/10\/30\/song-for-a-willow\/","title":{"rendered":"Song for a Willow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with my partner and two sons, we honored a felled Willow tree in Parc La Fontaine, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec. Excavating its roots, clearing debris and memorializing its stump, we created a space of ritual in this highly populated park intersection. The work then developed a life of its own via the passersby. Contributions have included planted rootstock, from which Willow trees are capable of regrowth; an increasing number of \u2018bouquets\u2019 following the original shown in the detail; as well as various relics including an abalone half shell and offerings of food.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1947\" src=\"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/recc81-song-for-a-willow-before.jpg?resize=3456%2C2304\" alt=\"Re\u0301 - Song for a Willow (before)\" width=\"3456\" height=\"2304\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1949\" src=\"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/recc81-song-for-a-willow.jpg?resize=3456%2C2304\" alt=\"Re\u0301 - Song for a Willow\" width=\"3456\" height=\"2304\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1948\" src=\"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/recc81-song-for-a-willow-detail-01.jpg?resize=3456%2C2304\" alt=\"Re\u0301 - Song for a Willow (detail 01)\" width=\"3456\" height=\"2304\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with my partner and two sons, we honored a felled Willow tree in Parc La Fontaine, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec. Excavating its roots, clearing debris and memorializing its stump, we created a space of ritual in this highly populated park intersection. The work then developed a life of its own via the passersby. Contributions have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-artworks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/recc81-song-for-a-willow-before-1.jpg?fit=3456%2C2304&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7CROG-vm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}