{"id":12435,"date":"2020-04-07T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12435"},"modified":"2020-08-03T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T19:56:30","slug":"the-amarna-family-group-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/07\/the-amarna-family-group-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amarna Family Group – getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Making<\/a>
Making a Start<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’ve decided to work spiral Or Nu\u00e9, as I did for Christus Natus Est<\/a>, rather than the straight version I used for the Hittite Amulet<\/a>. It creates more of a sense of movement, and that is very much in keeping with Amarna period art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That, however, meant that I had to work out where to start the spiral, and as I mentioned on the first video<\/a>, I had several options. The first was simply to start in the middle of the piece, but I felt that would either look very static, or, almost worse, create a rather 70s psychedelic vibe, not at all appropriate! The next three options could all be taken as emphasizing interpretations of the story of Akhenaten and Amarna. One of these was to centre the spiral in the centre of the Aten – but to be honest, for all Atenism is seen as one of the very earliest adventures in monotheism, that didn’t seem to me to reflect the stories that filter through Mary Chubb’s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Progress<\/a>
Progress in Week 2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So then I had a choice between centring the spiral on Akhenaten’s head, to reflect the idea that he espoused Atenism as a political ploy to break the power of the priests of Amun at Thebes, or centring it on his heart, to suggest that he believed he’d received a genuine religious revelation. You can see which I chose!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second video is here<\/a><\/a>, and will show you some of the progress to this point, as well as my musings as I stitch. I have a few more quandaries to sort out, but you’ll hear about those in the next episode, as I tackle them. As before, if you have any questions about what I’ve said in the video, or what I’ve done, please ask, and I will do my best to give you a sensible and useful response!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to work spiral Or Nu\u00e9, as I did for Christus Natus Est, rather than the straight version I used for the Hittite Amulet. It creates more of a sense of movement, and that is very much in keeping with Amarna period art. That, however, meant that I had to work out where to… Continue Reading The Amarna Family Group – getting started<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[221,155,158,59,222],"class_list":["post-12435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-amarna-family-group","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-goldwork","tag-or-nue","tag-slowtvstitchery","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12435"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12660,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions\/12660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}