{"id":4676,"date":"2008-02-28T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compeung.org\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2017-11-24T01:34:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T01:34:22","slug":"christine-cheung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/christine-cheung\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Cheung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Works made close to Doi Saket at Compeung Residency, half an hour from Chiang Mai. Near the Adobe style houses in which I stayed, there were two lovely lakes and Buddhist temples. I was told these paintings seem to capture rainy season in Chiang Mai, though the season was currently dry. These paintings I realized, were romanticizations or fictionalizations of Thailand. I painted these places as though I was Van Gogh in the Netherland fields, or Trinidad as Peter Doig, the streets as though I was Cecily Brown. As an outsider I was imagining the place as something different than it really was. Is it possible to capture a place accurately?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinecheung.ca\/category\/24\/p\/124\">Kingdom of Thai<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinecheung.ca\/category\/24\/p\/124\">http:\/\/www.christinecheung.ca\/category\/24\/p\/124<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Works made close to Doi Saket at Compeung Residency, half an hour from Chiang Mai. Near the Adobe style houses in which I stayed, there were two lovely lakes and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/christine-cheung\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>explore this artist(s)<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christine Cheung<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-drawing","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}