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Here’s some pics of the beautiful, wooden, moving sculptures at a duo show between Toni-Ann Ballenden and Richard John Forbes at GordArt in Melville. These are kind of mythic, rock-a-bye trees growing in the middle of the gallery. Maybe it’s the child in me, but I just kept pushing them like those old punching bags filled with air, from when we were kids. Look Ma, it’s interactive<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s some pics of the beautiful, wooden, moving sculptures at a duo show between Toni-Ann Ballenden and Richard John Forbes at GordArt in Melville. These are kind of mythic, rock-a-bye trees growing in the middle of the gallery. Maybe it’s the child in me, but I just kept pushing them like those old punching bags […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-7N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1939,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/jimmy-wales-talks-art-and-wikipedia\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":0},"title":"Jimmy Wales talks Art and Wikipedia","author":"nathaniel","date":"22 May 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Nice to see Jimbo talk about Art and Wikipedia. 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