{"id":14532,"date":"2014-05-09T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T06:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=14532"},"modified":"2014-05-27T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T07:55:48","slug":"photo-essay-falling-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=14532","title":{"rendered":"Photo Essay:  Falling Back To Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagphotoessay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagphotoessay.jpg\" alt=\"tagphotoessay\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagphotoessay.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagphotoessay-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"dropcap\">C<\/span>ai Guo-Qiang, the celebrated Chinese art curator and my favourite character in the second <em>Star Wars<\/em> trilogy, recently ran an exhibit in Brisbane called <em>Falling Back To Earth<\/em>.\u00a0 The exhibit was broken down into three sections &#8211; a gigantic eucalyptus tree that was laid across the main hall and two show rooms that had 99 animals in each.\u00a0 One of these exhibits was a spectacular torrent of wolves soaring through the air before colliding with an invisible barrier.\u00a0 The other had a Noah&#8217;s Ark worth of animals having a drink at a watering hole together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although the exhibit was relatively small, the scale of each work was absolutely massive.\u00a0 The time taken to replicate 198 animals boggles the mind.\u00a0 I like how they were discreetly stylized and had unusual variations in size for artistic effect.\u00a0 The detail on the wolves was incredible.\u00a0 They had padded paws, realistic looking fur and detailed faces including teeth, gums and tongues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma005.jpg\" alt=\"goma005\" width=\"630\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma005.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma005-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma004.jpg\" alt=\"goma004\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" 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src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma010.jpg\" alt=\"goma010\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma010.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma010-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14537\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma003.jpg\" alt=\"goma003\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma003.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma003-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma007.jpg\"><img 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center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma009.jpg\" alt=\"goma009\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma009.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma009-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma001.jpg\" alt=\"goma001\" width=\"630\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma001.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goma001-169x300.jpg 169w, 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