{"id":4,"date":"2013-07-18T19:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T19:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-03-08T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:28:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_half\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maria-1-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19531 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maria-1-copy-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maria-1-copy-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maria-1-copy-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maria-1-copy-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maria-1-copy-94x70.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maria-1-copy.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"one_half last\">\n\u201cA small daily task if it really be daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Anthony Trollope<\/p>\n<p>Since September 12, 2005 I have made one small piece of art every day. I collect bits of visual information and experiment with different media and subject matter in these daily works. Along the way I have kept a blog of these paintings, now totaling over 7000 works.<\/p>\n<p>My larger paintings are natural outgrowths of this obsessive and committed ritual. They begin as a conversation between physical action and internal stillness; an initial transfer of energy with marks, washes, drawing, brushstrokes and drips gives way to a slow process of editing and building through adding, obscuring and revealing. I deliberately keep the painting open and unresolved for as long as possible, dwelling in uncertainty and pushing the edge of my understanding.\u00a0 The result are paintings with richly layered surfaces and an underlying history that exudes breath, depth and life.\u00a0 Painting is a meditation practice for me, and my work is conversation between my internal landscape and the natural world.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Resume\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/?page_id=11\">Resume<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22509,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/22509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariaburtis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}