{"id":574,"date":"2008-10-07T22:05:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T22:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=574"},"modified":"2008-10-07T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T22:10:09","slug":"arty-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Arty facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I read with interest today that the new Saatchi Gallery opens this week filled with exhibits from China. One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art-and-architecture\/news\/dog-chews-and-mao-saatchis--art-revolution-953507.html?action=Popup&amp;ino=6\">exhibits is made entirely of dog chews<\/a>!!!! I felt completely inspired by this and promptly created a piece of art myself. I call it &#8216;Toil and Reward&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-575\" title=\"toilandreward\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/toilandreward.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/toilandreward.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/toilandreward-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please observe the artiste&#8217;s anguish in the daily toil of ridding the house of flies (and artistically glueying it to the freshly cleaned window) and then carefully placing the reward on the windowsill thus creating a direct relationship between the two objects in this photo. Very satisfactory! I wonder if the New Saatchi Gallery would be interested &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note: Mum says if you are into buying and selling shares, now&#8217;s the time to invest in companies that produce window cleaning products. She can see a lot of &#8216;growth&#8217; there &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-576\" title=\"ragamuffinnartiste\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ragamuffinnartiste.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ragamuffinnartiste.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ragamuffinnartiste-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bye for now!<\/p>\n<p>Finni <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-273\" title=\"paw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/BluePawTiny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I read with interest today that the new Saatchi Gallery opens this week filled with exhibits from China. One of the exhibits is made entirely of dog chews!!!! I felt completely inspired by this and promptly created a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}