{"id":2040,"date":"2010-12-09T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T21:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2010-12-08T19:14:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T08:14:56","slug":"lets-hear-it-for-the-nannas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"let&#8217;s hear it for the nannas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of grand old dames:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2042\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2042\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=2042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2042\" title=\"Wenda, brooch 2010. Melissa Cameron + Chloe Vallance. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wenda-brooch-72-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wenda-brooch-72-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wenda-brooch-72.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wenda, brooch 2010. Melissa Cameron + Chloe Vallance. Coloured Pencil on recycled bamboo bowl, 925 silver and stainless steel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2043\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2043\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=2043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2043\" title=\"Wends back, 2010. Melissa Cameron + Chloe Vallance.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wends-back-72-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wends-back-72-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wends-back-72-440x448.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wends-back-72.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wenda, brooch (reverse) 2010. Melissa Cameron + Chloe Vallance. Coloured Pencil on recycled bamboo bowl, 925 silver and stainless steel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My nan. No one played the walking-sticks as a violin quite like her. Especially when dressed in her bathers, a towel, and her dreadful straw sun hat. It was her swimming hat. You&#8217;d never have guessed that she had worked in a hat shop for over <em>thirty years, <\/em>every time she put on that little number&#8230; It does rather give her the halo of a religious icon though. Or even that of a <a title=\"Google Images - Wandjina\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com.au\/images?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;biw=1035&amp;bih=644&amp;tbs=isch%3A1&amp;sa=1&amp;q=wandjina&amp;btnG=Search&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=\" target=\"_blank\">Wandjina<\/a>. I kinda like that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2041\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2041\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=2041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2041 \" title=\"(as yet untitled Nanna) 2010. Melissa Cameron + Chloe Vallance. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Nanna-72-470x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Nanna-72-470x1200.jpg 470w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Nanna-72-401x1024.jpg 401w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Nanna-72-117x300.jpg 117w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Nanna-72.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(as yet untitled Nanna) 2010. Melissa Cameron + Chloe Vallance. Coloured Pencil on recycled bamboo bowl, silk thread<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chloe&#8217;s nan. See Wend? That&#8217;s how nans are <em>supposed<\/em> to behave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Melissa&#8217;s nan, Wenda. One of the finest there ever was. And Chloe&#8217;s, one of the best there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition","category-jewellery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}