{"id":4885,"date":"2012-12-27T14:55:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T07:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=4885"},"modified":"2012-12-27T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T08:03:35","slug":"titles-for-new-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2012\/12\/titles-for-new-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Titles for New Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Most of my new work has names that I easily associate with the piece. \u00a0For example, every time I show someone the photo on the left, they say it reminds them of octupuses so I called it “Octopi” – one of the three plural\u00a0forms of\u00a0octopus.<\/p>\n

The other day a friend asked about one of my pieces by using the title I gave it on my website and – oops – I\u00a0had trouble remembering which one of a half dozen possible pieces it might be. Clearly I \u00a0did not put enough thought into coming up with a suitable, and memorable (at least for me) name for that specific piece.<\/p>\n

Thankfully,\u00a0James Gurney just completed a series of three posts on his blog about the importance of titles. He is talking about paintings but his tips are spot on for any artist. \u00a0I especially took to heart his suggestion “Make sure you recognize the piece from the title.”<\/p>\n

Gurney’s post was especially timely since I just added three new pieces to my website and have yet to name them. \u00a0I briefly considered naming them “Twist 2,” “Torque 3” and “Wrap 4” but that would be such a cop out!<\/p>\n

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I will come up with titles soon. But I need to put some thought into it!<\/p>\n

James Gurney’s Titles for Paintings, Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of my new work has names that I easily associate with the piece. \u00a0For example, every time I show someone the photo on the left, they say it reminds them of octupuses so I called it “Octopi” – one of the three plural\u00a0forms of\u00a0octopus. The other day a friend asked about one of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polymer-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}