{"id":44140,"date":"2020-02-05T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=44140"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:17:55","slug":"mary-borgstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/mary-borgstrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Borgstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A potter and an Artist<br \/>\nA need to excavate<br \/>\nA mindful glimpse through history<br \/>\nA medieval gait<br \/>\nTo primitive beginnings<br \/>\nThe Bygone forgotten days<br \/>\nRetroactive thinking<br \/>\nAnd all the many ways<br \/>\nShe was part of Nature<br \/>\nRespecting each event<br \/>\nAn originator<br \/>\nShe gave her consent<br \/>\nTo using clays and precious earths<br \/>\nHer Genesis deemed true<br \/>\nAnd A practical design sense<br \/>\nThat clearly just burst through<\/p>\n<p>Living in the old house<br \/>\nSurrounded by the trees<br \/>\nHoarding all those memories<br \/>\nWorking just to please<br \/>\nThe many forms  in nature<br \/>\nCrafting with hand and eye<br \/>\nWith onion skins and leaves and others<br \/>\nproviding  the dye<br \/>\nShe was inspired by RIEGGER<br \/>\nIn the sixties and she saw<br \/>\nThe different clays around the place<br \/>\nShe painted more and more<br \/>\nKinetic art and substance<br \/>\nintaglio and  relief<br \/>\nWhittling chiselling chasing<br \/>\nShe had that strong belief<\/p>\n<p>Her artwork and identity<br \/>\nAn enactment of her soul<br \/>\nShe look backwards and through Nature<br \/>\nShe had recognised her role<br \/>\nHer clarity of purpose<br \/>\nThe complexity of how<br \/>\nThe conciseness of tomorrow<br \/>\nAnd the need to work hard now<br \/>\nShe had a fear of loss and thereby<br \/>\nCouldn\u2019t throw away<br \/>\nEverything had value<br \/>\nAnd was part of everyday<br \/>\nShe spent accumulating<br \/>\nUntil she could no more<br \/>\nLike her the house was ailing<br \/>\nWith less room on the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potter and an Artist A need to excavate A mindful glimpse through history A medieval gait To primitive beginnings The Bygone forgotten days Retroactive thinking And all the many ways She was part of Nature Respecting each event An &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/mary-borgstrom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,19,305,36,54,73,74,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-in-art","category-communication-and-leadership","category-explorers-and-visionaries","category-indigenous-people","category-people-i-have-observed","category-starvation-and-the-poor","category-the-arts-and-culture","category-womens-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44142,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44140\/revisions\/44142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}