{"id":3021,"date":"2015-08-30T21:56:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T20:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2015-12-14T22:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T21:13:25","slug":"the-role-of-the-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/3021","title":{"rendered":"The role of the artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I came to see that the human imagination is not paramount in the creative process: that what is paramount is \u201cThe Creation\u201d and He who created it and that what the true artist is expressing is not himself but his response to this eternal continuing process of Creation \u2026 I believe that, in the humblest way, we are collaborators on Earth in God\u2019s continuing Act of Creation, and that this is the role of the artist in Society.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hew_Lorimer\">Hew Lorimer<\/a> (the guy that did the sculptures on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nls.uk\">National Library of Scotland<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to see that the human imagination is not paramount in the creative process: that what is paramount is \u201cThe Creation\u201d and He who created it and that what the true artist is expressing is not himself but his response to this eternal continuing process of Creation \u2026 I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mindfulness_buddhism","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}