{"id":628,"date":"2015-06-12T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisagriffen.com\/main\/?p=628"},"modified":"2015-07-09T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:01:04","slug":"visitor-from-the-dreamtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/visitor-from-the-dreamtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitor from the Dreamtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_609\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-609\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisagriffen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LisaGriffen_Visitor_from_the_Dreamtime_16x20_800.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Griffen, Visitor from the Dreamtime, acrylic and ink on 18x24&quot; canvas. \" width=\"455\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LisaGriffen_Visitor_from_the_Dreamtime_16x20_800.jpg 637w, https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LisaGriffen_Visitor_from_the_Dreamtime_16x20_800-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/LisaGriffen_Visitor_from_the_Dreamtime_16x20_800-624x784.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Griffen, Visitor from the Dreamtime, acrylic and ink on 18&#215;24&#8243; canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I watched the movie Tracks on Netflix. It&#8217;s about Robin Davidson&#8217;s solo trek across the Australian desert in the 1970s. Then I read her book, which gave a lot more detail, especially about the Aboriginal people she met along her way. That got me interested in reading about the spirituality of indigenous Australians. I&#8217;m especially intrigued by the Creation stories about the Dreamtime.<\/p>\n<p>A few days after I finished all that reading, this figure showed up in my painting, clearly emerging from those explorations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the movie Tracks on Netflix. It&#8217;s about Robin Davidson&#8217;s solo trek across the Australian desert in the 1970s. Then I read her book, which gave a lot more detail, especially about the Aboriginal people she met along her way. That got me interested in reading about the spirituality of indigenous Australians. I&#8217;m especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[13,45,37,16,10,15,11,49,12],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}