{"id":493,"date":"2019-03-07T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/?p=493"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:59:33","slug":"full-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/full-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Full Flow&#8221; by Kathleen Thum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='fullscreen_slider_1'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-default' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='no scaling'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='494'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='true'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='3'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_1'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper='1'  data-image_attachment='scroll'  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-no scaling av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 66.6666666667%;' ><li style='background-position:center center;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/full-flow.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-493'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:19px; color:#000000; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>As around 210 million gallons of oil seeped into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, associate art professor Kathleen Thum realized how disconnected she had been from a material embedded in her everyday life. Oil surrounds us yet remains somewhat mysterious. Since the Deepwater Horizon spill, Thum has been creating works of art with used motor oil.<\/p>\n<p>Her piece \u201cFull Flow,\u201d pictured, has been exhibited at the Pearl Conrad Art Gallery at Ohio State University; the Spartanburg Art Museum in Spartanburg; the Wilson Hall Gallery at the University of Alabama; the Wiseman Gallery at Rogue Community College in Grants Pass, Oregon; and the Thompson Gallery at Furman University in Greenville.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style=' margin-top:0; margin-bottom:30px;'  class='hr hr-custom hr-center hr-icon-no   avia-builder-el-5  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner   inner-border-av-border-thin' style=' width:550;' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_full  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_hr  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:16px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase;\">Her thoughts\u00a0on the piece\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2192<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"av_dropcap1 \" ><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I want the viewer to feel but also to think. I\u2019ve organized the composition to be layered with a more structured form on the top, transitioning into more chaotic and organic forms below. My thoughts behind this are to communicate a transition of controlled energy to uncontrolled energy, a transition of man-made to the natural, a transition from known to unknown. I would like viewers to feel this shift in energy, but I would also like the viewer to ask questions of the work and to become engaged with the work intellectually. As the viewer becomes aware that the work of art was partially created using used motor oil, I hope to disrupt and interfere with their expectations of how one experiences oil in our Western world. I would like for the viewer to reflect, if only for an instant, on how oil is an integral part of our contemporary existence yet remains a mysterious and unknown substance, contained and controlled by the industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  style='height:100px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[153],"tags":[116,157],"coauthors":[12],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-researchupdates","tag-2019-research-updates","tag-visual-arts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/full-flow.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IEky-7X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}