{"product_id":"40-nights-40-days-03-40","title":"40 nights\/40 days (03\/40)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e40 nights \/40 days: From the Lockdown (2020)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eAt the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I set up a small desk in my bedroom as a makeshift studio. Armed with a set of newly acquired Winsor Newton artist’s-quality watercolours and a stack of Fabriano postcard paper books, I set myself the task of completing one painting a day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eMy partner’s father, an archaeologist by profession, had left us with piles of old National Geographic magazines; each one full of their remarkable photographs. Daily, I thus selected an image that resonated to inspire a small watercolour that reflected my internal state. I created 40 postcards which I imagined I could send out to the world to tell them how I am feeling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eThe chosen images were mostly of single human beings, dwarfed by the vastness of natural settings; places that evoke the experience of awe. The environments they found themselves in were mostly terrain too severe for human habitation and potentially life-threatening environments.  I was grateful to the brave people in the photographs for bringing spaciousness to the constraint of lockdown. In the end there were also several images that fell outside of this theme, but since they also somehow commented truthfully on my everyday experience, I included these as well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003eShown here are a selection of images from this series; postcards full of feeling which I have decided to send out into the world. The rest of the images of this series can be seen on my website at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hanienconradie.com\/watercolours\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/www.hanienconradie.com\/watercolours\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Local Vendor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47742496866525,"sku":"hanien-conradie_40-nights-40-days-03-40","price":6325.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/7261\/1293\/files\/40days03_1.jpg?v=1775565431","url":"https:\/\/latitudes.online\/products\/40-nights-40-days-03-40","provider":"Latitudes Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}