{"id":742,"date":"2012-02-05T18:18:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T02:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/self-portrait-with-spectre\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:09:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:09:26","slug":"self-portrait-with-spectre","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/self-portrait-with-spectre\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait with Spectre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Neon artist Lili Lakich was influenced by neon roadside signs she saw while traveling with ehr military family, and began to use neon as a medium in 1973 after learning from a local sign company. Lakich uses found objects, honeycomb aluminum and assorted metals to create wall-mounted pieces such as \u201cSelf-Portrait with Spectre\u201d (2002).  Created as both a response to the September 11th attacks and the end of Lakich\u2019s fifteen-year relationship, the lifelike portrait of the artist is superimposed against the neon outline of the spectre, who holds a flaming gun to contrast the revolving lights over the portrait\u2019s aluminum heart. The spectre itself relates to the emblem of an AC-130 gunship that fired on a wedding in Afghanistan in 2002, killing hundred of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The emotional weight of the subject matter might seem unsuited to a medium like neon, but instead the moving lights create a subtle chiaroscuro effect on the aluminum, giving the image itself more life than it would have had, had it been a non-electronic installation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>All information courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lili_Lakich\">wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lakich.com\/ns8-bombs.htm\">artist website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Self-Spectre.jpg\" alt=\"Self Portrait with Spectre\" title=\"Self Portrait with Spectre\" width=\"426\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":5445,"template":"","artist":[905],"streams":[5562,5563,5561],"keywords":[3013,2276,4016,4017,4018],"decade":[5544],"media":[5550],"class_list":["post-742","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-lili-lakich","streams-duration","streams-illumination","streams-motion","keywords-electronic-art","keywords-neon","keywords-portrait","keywords-self-portrait","keywords-spectre","decade-2000s","media-installation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/742\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}