{"id":185,"date":"2008-09-06T06:04:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T06:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-09-06T06:04:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T06:04:45","slug":"contextual-design-in-castleford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/contextual-design-in-castleford\/","title":{"rendered":"Contextual design and sculpture in Castleford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-186 alignright\" title=\"Henry More sculpture (Source: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Moore)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a>Our guest contributor, Christine Storry writes that &#8216;Intuitively, I think the place to start thinking about the issues of identity for the area is with arguably Castleford\u2019s most famous son, sculptor Henry Moore.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Moore had a deep interest in the siting of his work and often makes me feel a little guilty about reading on trains: he said it was a waste of a wonderful opportunity to observe the landscape. The photograph is of\u00a0Moore&#8217;s bronze &#8220;Die Liegende&#8221; \u00a0in Stuttgart (image source: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Moore).<\/p>\n<p>If my memory serves me correctly, I think I heard the architect of a dull paving design for Castleford Town Center say that there were patches of black paving to reflect the underlying coal seam. This would count as a response to context but I doubt if it would command as much support as giving Moore an honoured place in Castleford&#8217;s urban landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest contributor, Christine Storry writes that &#8216;Intuitively, I think the place to start thinking about the issues of identity for the area is with arguably Castleford\u2019s most famous son, sculptor Henry Moore.&#8217; Moore had a deep interest in the siting of his work and often makes me feel a little guilty about reading on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}