{"id":1759,"date":"2012-07-21T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2012-07-21T06:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T04:15:38","slug":"small-or-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/small-or-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Reach and size."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nice things about making art is that size doesn&#8217;t matter. You can make a tiny work of art for just a few people and it&#8217;s perfectly satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>But is this still true when working in a popular medium and embracing it as such? I imagine it would be utterly unsatisfying to make easily accessible work and then have only a small number of people play it. When creating work with the potential of appealing to many people, you sort of have the obligation to try and <em>reach<\/em> all those people too.<\/p>\n<p>That can be an expensive project. A small art project can be a bit broken. But when working in a less elitist sphere, the piece just has to function properly, technically and artistically. It just has to work. So people are not confused. So they <em>get<\/em> the work, on a first try, without effort or preparation.<\/p>\n<p>This is entirely possible but it takes considerable effort and the accompanying cost. I&#8217;m attracted to the challenge. But I&#8217;m also still drawn to small projects that you make one day and publish the next. My love of early websites may never go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nice things about making art is that size doesn&#8217;t matter. You can make a tiny work of art for just a few people and it&#8217;s perfectly satisfying. But is this still true when working in a popular medium and embracing it as such? I imagine it would be utterly unsatisfying to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}