{"id":5240,"date":"2017-11-05T22:54:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T22:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:16:08","slug":"shadowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=5240","title":{"rendered":"SHADOWMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db-art-work-street-art.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5241\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?attachment_id=5241\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db-art-work-street-art.jpg?fit=236%2C636\" data-orig-size=\"236,636\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db&#8211;art-work-street-art\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db-art-work-street-art.jpg?fit=111%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db-art-work-street-art.jpg?fit=236%2C636\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5241\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db-art-work-street-art.jpg?resize=111%2C300\" alt=\"f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db--art-work-street-art\" width=\"111\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db-art-work-street-art.jpg?resize=111%2C300 111w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/f922b0758c215b945acc376cea7a23db-art-work-street-art.jpg?w=236 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel compelled to pay homage to artist Richard Hambleton. It seemed odd that the man I met in Vancouver repeatedly reappeared in <em>shadow<\/em>s during my brief Lower Manhattan sojourn. Spooked, I kept looking over my shoulder wondering why. How. How did we wind up in New York? At the same time. I remembered seeing his jarring Dick Trace-It faux crime scenes back home. Home seemed so very far away. As I told mutual friend Lincoln Clarkes, we weren\u2019t exactly close. Richard was rather hostile in fact but I tried not to take it personally. I knew he was weird and I was too preoccupied to worry about it. I was in survival mode, working at the Baby Doll Lounge, struggling to play music despite New York\u2019s high temperatures, crime rate and cost of living. I admired his work though. It was powerful, fascinating, seminal. Certainly he deserved more recognition but sadly that\u2019s the way with so much art and so many artists. R.I.P. Richard Hambleton. Here&#8217;s the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/03\/obituaries\/richard-hambleton-dead-shadowman-of-the-80s-art-scene.html?smid=fb-share\">obituary<\/a> with some exceptional video links.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel compelled to pay homage to artist Richard Hambleton. It seemed odd that the man I met in Vancouver repeatedly reappeared in shadows during my brief Lower Manhattan sojourn. Spooked, I kept looking over my shoulder wondering why. How. How did we wind up in New York? At the same time. I remembered seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}