{"id":3139,"date":"2017-01-04T20:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T01:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorajost.org\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2017-01-04T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T01:37:28","slug":"does-this-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"Does This Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lorajost.yachana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/600DoesThisMakeSense.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3140\" alt=\"Does This Make Sense?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lorajost.yachana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/600DoesThisMakeSense.jpg?resize=600%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lorajost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/600DoesThisMakeSense.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lorajost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/600DoesThisMakeSense.jpg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Does This Make Sense?&#8221; is a ballpoint pen drawing on clayboard (18&#8243; x 14&#8243;) that I recently completed for an exhibition in conjunction with next summer&#8217;s conference,\u00c2\u00a0<i>Crossing the Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders and Boundaries,<\/i> at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA, June 22-25, 2017. Rachel Epp Buller, Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Design at Bethel College in N. Newton, KS, will curate the exhibit.<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Artist Statement<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This piece\u00c2\u00a0 includes words that have personal meaning for me about <i>critical thinking<\/i>. Borders between cultures, between different ways of thinking, between different sets of values, even between groups within a shared culture offer both a dividing line and, if we can look across these borders, the possibility of thinking critically about the ideas on each side of the line. And I am of course never fully on one side of the line or the other at any given time; these borders are permeable. Who I am is formed out of ideas and values from my Mennonite heritage and from my experiences and commitments in the wider world. When I think across borders I often find myself asking the important age-old question, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Does this make sense?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d By looking both ways, I find new ways to engage my commitment to decency and peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Does This Make Sense?&#8221; is a ballpoint pen drawing on clayboard (18&#8243; x 14&#8243;) that I recently completed for an exhibition in conjunction with next summer&#8217;s conference,\u00c2\u00a0Crossing the Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders and Boundaries, at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA, June 22-25, 2017. Rachel Epp Buller, Associate Professor of Visual Arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[440,32,3],"tags":[466,463,537,465,464],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballpoint-pen","category-clayboard","category-exhibits","tag-466","tag-ballpoint-pen-drawing","tag-clayboard","tag-critical-thinking","tag-identity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}