{"id":1392,"date":"2013-09-07T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T15:49:19","slug":"thinking-about-parking-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/thinking-about-parking-lots\/","title":{"rendered":"thinking about parking lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the first time in quite a while, I find myself drawing as I think. I have never really sketched works, unless I need to describe them to someone else. I think them through, then make them. As usual, these drawings are really just another case of making more than one thing at once &#8211; or, at least, shaping more than one form. But they are a sign of how at home I feel in the open warehouse sized studio we have been provided with for our stay here&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/drawings\/lot01.jpg\" alt=\"parking lot #1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Broadway and Atwells Avenue<\/em>, pen and watercolour on paper, 100cm x 75cm, Mike Brookes 2013 &#8211; from the <em>parking lots of Providence<\/em> series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/drawings\/lot01a.jpg\" alt=\"Broadway and Atwells Avenue [detail]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/drawings\/lot01b.jpg\" alt=\"Broadway and Atwells Avenue [detail]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/parkinglotsofprovidence\/drawings\/lot01c.jpg\" alt=\"Broadway and Atwells Avenue [detail]\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in quite a while, I find myself drawing as I think. I have never really sketched works, unless I need to describe them to someone else. I think them through, then make them. As usual, these drawings are really just another case of making more than one thing at once &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,26,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historyrepeating","category-objects-with-pictures","category-parking-lots-of-providence","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}