{"id":22,"date":"2014-04-07T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/Staging\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:33:59","slug":"dog-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Dog Drawings 2005-present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alba, Tamara&#8217;s cross-Basenji rescue dog, is the subject of these drawings.  They show Alba&#8217;s life as she lounges around her home in N8 or chases around her ancient woods. Many of the drawings were made on 4-day Retreats.  Tamara is manic-depressive.  When she starts to become manic, she puts herself under &#8216;House Arrest&#8217; ie goes into a 4-Day Retreat at home, with the support of her Psychiatrist, Dr. B.  For 4 days she is &#8216;elective mute&#8217; and avoids technology in order to calm her mind and focus on:  Day1. music &#038; dance;  Day 2. drawing;  Day 3. reading;  Day 4. writing &#8230;. as well as sewing, knitting &#038; crochet, cake-making and bread-baking. <\/p>\n<p><em>The Alba drawings are like self-portraits:  if Alba looks at peace in a drawing, it is likely that Tamara is at peace too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/?attachment_id=19'><img width=\"180\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dog-on-the-roof-180x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/?attachment_id=161'><img width=\"180\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/HH-TIPSY-IN-QUEENS-WOOD--180x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/?attachment_id=18'><img width=\"180\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dog-on-sofa-wide-180x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/?attachment_id=17'><img width=\"180\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dog-Best-180x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/?attachment_id=21'><img width=\"180\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dog-waking-180x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/?attachment_id=20'><img width=\"180\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dog-rumage-180x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alba, Tamara&#8217;s cross-Basenji rescue dog, is the subject of these drawings. They show Alba&#8217;s life as she lounges around her home in N8 or chases around her ancient woods. Many of the drawings were made on 4-day Retreats. Tamara is manic-depressive. When she starts to become manic, she puts herself under &#8216;House Arrest&#8217; ie goes<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dog Drawings 2005-present&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingthewirewell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}