{"id":6001,"date":"2014-11-23T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T21:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:52","slug":"6001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=6001","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6002 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0azumamakoto1.jpg\" alt=\"0azumamakoto1\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0azumamakoto1.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0azumamakoto1-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0azumamakoto1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/> <\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>In a project titled\u00a0<em>Exobiotanica,\u00a0<\/em>Japanese artist Azuma Makoto launched two objects into space:\u00a0a 50-year-old white pine bonsai and an untitled arrangement of orchids, hydrangeas, lilies, irises, and other flowers. The artist said of the project:\u00a0&#8220;Plants on the earth rooted in the soil, under the command of gravity. Roots, soil and gravity\u2014by giving up the links to life, what kind of &#8216;beauty&#8217; shall be born?&#8221; (<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #339966;\" title=\"Azuma Makoto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/azuma-makoto-exobiotanica?context=tag-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6001 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;Artist Azuma Makoto&#8217;s Space Art, Exobiotanica&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6003 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0azumamakoto7.jpg\" alt=\"0azumamakoto7\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0azumamakoto7.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0azumamakoto7-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0azumamakoto7-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/> <\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a project titled Exobiotanica, Japanese artist Azuma Makoto and his crew launched two objects into space: a 50-year-old white pine bonsai and an untitled arrangement of orchids, hydrangeas, lilies, irises, and other flowers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18397,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/18397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}