{"id":7355,"date":"2017-07-06T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T22:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2017-07-06T08:58:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T22:58:16","slug":"steeling-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7355","title":{"rendered":"Steeling myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7357\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=7357\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7357 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/biginstaMCameron_Resist_Neckpieces_2017-600x557.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a Resist neckpiece (that spells 'resist' in binary) in stainless steel and vitreous enamel. Photograph by Melissa Cameron.\" width=\"600\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2017\/07\/biginstaMCameron_Resist_Neckpieces_2017-600x557.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2017\/07\/biginstaMCameron_Resist_Neckpieces_2017-440x408.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2017\/07\/biginstaMCameron_Resist_Neckpieces_2017-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2017\/07\/biginstaMCameron_Resist_Neckpieces_2017-768x713.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Body\/Politic &#8211; Resist neckpieces, collage. 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m on route to Sheffield to speak at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acj.org.uk\/index.php\/2-uncategorised\/426-conference-july-2017\">ACJ 20:20 Visions Conference<\/a> about my works (spoiler, I&#8217;m on Saturday afternoon), and I&#8217;m getting pretty excited, and no, just not just to go to the multiple steel museums!<\/p>\n<p>Now that the final <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acj.org.uk\/index.php\/conference\/444-programme-times\">programme has been published<\/a> I see that along with catching up with friends I&#8217;ve not seen since I was last in the UK in 2011, I get to check in with a few faces familiar from other global jewellery haunts, which I&#8217;m really looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found as the annual SNAG conference has become much more familiar to me, my participation has become very business-like (thanks especially to the annual Editorial Advisory Committee meeting and always spending the preceding week finishing work for the trunk show.) I&#8217;m looking forward to being able to learn about a less-familiar jewellery culture while meeting some heroes and making a few new friends. And having some relaxing tours of local museums and such, while finally (fingers crossed!) experiencing summer in England.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on Instagram, expect to see supreme random-ness from Sheffield, London, Birmingham and Manchester \ud83d\ude09 And if you&#8217;re in those places, look out for me in my hat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one about going to Sheffield in the UK to do jewellery things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,80,87,107,55,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-talk","category-conference","category-enamel","category-jewellery","category-travel","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355","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=7355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7361,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions\/7361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}