{"id":172,"date":"2025-04-03T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:38:04","slug":"timothy-lais-magical-enigmatic-self-emerges-in-still-yet-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/timothy-lais-magical-enigmatic-self-emerges-in-still-yet-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Lai&#039;s Magical, Enigmatic Self Emerges in &#8220;Still. Yet. Still.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img src=\"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/36d77bbdebc010c1c372052031561a74_L.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">&#8220;In terms of concealment, I was curious about how we would read these figures under such terms. When we are not privy to their thoughts and actions. I thought it would be exciting to open up the potential to multiple readings and ultimately have no finite answer. Admittedly, from a painterly perspective, it also allowed more room for exploration in material and visual manipulation. It was exciting to consider the figures\u2019 subjectivity under different terms.&#8221; When&nbsp;Timothy Lai said this in&nbsp;Juxtapoz in 2024,&nbsp;I couldn&#8217;t help but think of this line when looking at his newest body of work,&nbsp;Still. Yet. Still., opening at Jack Barrett this week. In the context of the quote above, Lai was working with curtains, whether as concealing&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In terms of concealment, I was curious about how we would read these figures under such terms. When we are not privy to their thoughts and actions. I thought it would be exciting to open up the potential to multiple readings and ultimately have no finite answer. Admittedly, from a painterly perspective, it also allowed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerlinestory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}