{"title":"Jessica Taft Original Artwork","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"as-i-am","title":"As I Am , Original Artwork","description":"\u003cp style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003eOriginal artwork by Jessica Taft. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA figurative-abstract oil painting of a face at rest, turned gently toward the light, surrounded by everything a life grew - roses, lotus, bleeding hearts in gold. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAs I Am\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e is the quiet thesis of my \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat We Carried\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e collection made visible: nothing to prove, nothing to fix, no permission left to ask for. The title is the whole story - what it looks like to stop waiting to be ready, and simply arrive\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMedium: Oil on canvas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 71cm (width) × 56cm (height) × 1.5 cm (depth)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrame:\u003c\/b\u003e Unframed, on stretched canvas. 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Realism melting into abstraction. 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