{"id":1087,"date":"2014-05-09T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2018-10-19T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:25:46","slug":"airbending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Airbending"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1088\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/slipstream.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/slipstream.jpg\" alt=\"Ollie Scarff took this for Getty. I nicked it from bit.ly\/1hBZheF \" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/slipstream.jpg 594w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/slipstream-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ollie Scarff took this for Getty. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1hBZheF\">I nicked it<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>His sea of reflective sump oil, which is permanently installed in the Saatchi Collection in London, was described as &#8220;one of the masterpieces of the modern age&#8221; by the art critic Andrew Graham Dixon. Now the sculptor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardwilsonsculptor.com\/\"><b>Richard Wilson<\/b><\/a>, twice nominated for the Turner Prize, has raised his game &#8211; literally &#8211; with the unveiling, last Wednesday, of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/AfJO61MwzU0\"><b><i>Slipstream<\/i><\/b><\/a>, a 77-tonne, 78-metre sculpture now hanging in Heathrow\u2019s new Terminal 2. As an embodiment of flight, it\u2019s indisputably impressive. The CAD-assisted scientific visualisation that went into its design may have missed the point, however. Compare it to the brutal simplicity of Moscow\u2019s <a href=\"\u201cve\/875110976\/in\/photostream\/\u201c\">Monument to the Conquerors of Space&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/07_4conquerors_of_space.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/07_4conquerors_of_space.jpg\" alt=\"07_4conquerors_of_space\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/07_4conquerors_of_space.jpg 399w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/07_4conquerors_of_space-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and doesn\u2019t it seem just a bit, well, <i>wibbly<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His sea of reflective sump oil, which is permanently installed in the Saatchi Collection in London, was described as &#8220;one of the masterpieces of the modern age&#8221; by the art critic Andrew Graham Dixon. Now the sculptor Richard Wilson, twice &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[616,78],"tags":[118,119,147,190,263],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-reviews-and-opinion","tag-aeronautics","tag-airport-art","tag-cad","tag-heathrow","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}