{"id":2147,"date":"2024-02-11T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T00:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2024-02-11T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T00:58:15","slug":"lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/?p=2147","title":{"rendered":"LAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019re paying attention then this is all very very sad.. <br>To have to contemplate inevitable death in all of our futures can be confronting to some.. but to stare into the face of the coming calamitous tsunami of world ending conditions, that are very likely to destroy all of us.. human, animal and microbe alike is strong cause for Lamentation.. and it is a little surprising that there isn\u2019t much lamenting going on..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is\/are too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2105\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/EB18BD11-E191-41A6-BF97-E49EBDB1B94D-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2105\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/EB18BD11-E191-41A6-BF97-E49EBDB1B94D-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/EB18BD11-E191-41A6-BF97-E49EBDB1B94D-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/EB18BD11-E191-41A6-BF97-E49EBDB1B94D-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/EB18BD11-E191-41A6-BF97-E49EBDB1B94D-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/EB18BD11-E191-41A6-BF97-E49EBDB1B94D-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/EB18BD11-E191-41A6-BF97-E49EBDB1B94D.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2108\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/BFD7F7B1-B339-4F24-A235-ECB039B7E43B-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2108\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/BFD7F7B1-B339-4F24-A235-ECB039B7E43B-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/BFD7F7B1-B339-4F24-A235-ECB039B7E43B-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/BFD7F7B1-B339-4F24-A235-ECB039B7E43B-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/BFD7F7B1-B339-4F24-A235-ECB039B7E43B-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/BFD7F7B1-B339-4F24-A235-ECB039B7E43B-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/BFD7F7B1-B339-4F24-A235-ECB039B7E43B.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT I<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2107\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/FED30843-8C73-41C6-9020-37CFA677F0DE-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2107\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/FED30843-8C73-41C6-9020-37CFA677F0DE-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/FED30843-8C73-41C6-9020-37CFA677F0DE-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/FED30843-8C73-41C6-9020-37CFA677F0DE-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/FED30843-8C73-41C6-9020-37CFA677F0DE-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/FED30843-8C73-41C6-9020-37CFA677F0DE-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/FED30843-8C73-41C6-9020-37CFA677F0DE.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2109\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/939CF388-88D8-4382-879E-F266B7E25357-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2109\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/939CF388-88D8-4382-879E-F266B7E25357-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/939CF388-88D8-4382-879E-F266B7E25357-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/939CF388-88D8-4382-879E-F266B7E25357-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/939CF388-88D8-4382-879E-F266B7E25357-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/939CF388-88D8-4382-879E-F266B7E25357-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/939CF388-88D8-4382-879E-F266B7E25357.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT IV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2106\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/733D9DE5-D60C-4893-8401-2B2634601BF9-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2106\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/733D9DE5-D60C-4893-8401-2B2634601BF9-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/733D9DE5-D60C-4893-8401-2B2634601BF9-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/733D9DE5-D60C-4893-8401-2B2634601BF9-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/733D9DE5-D60C-4893-8401-2B2634601BF9-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/733D9DE5-D60C-4893-8401-2B2634601BF9-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/733D9DE5-D60C-4893-8401-2B2634601BF9.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2110\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/38C6C13F-13F3-4671-94F3-B178725F74E3-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2110\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/38C6C13F-13F3-4671-94F3-B178725F74E3-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/38C6C13F-13F3-4671-94F3-B178725F74E3-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/38C6C13F-13F3-4671-94F3-B178725F74E3-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/38C6C13F-13F3-4671-94F3-B178725F74E3-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/38C6C13F-13F3-4671-94F3-B178725F74E3-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/38C6C13F-13F3-4671-94F3-B178725F74E3.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT V<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2111\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/D8E6FA8D-A16E-45B9-8350-A1B31AE1E6F7-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2111\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/D8E6FA8D-A16E-45B9-8350-A1B31AE1E6F7-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/D8E6FA8D-A16E-45B9-8350-A1B31AE1E6F7-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/D8E6FA8D-A16E-45B9-8350-A1B31AE1E6F7-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/D8E6FA8D-A16E-45B9-8350-A1B31AE1E6F7-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/D8E6FA8D-A16E-45B9-8350-A1B31AE1E6F7-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/D8E6FA8D-A16E-45B9-8350-A1B31AE1E6F7.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT V<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2112\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/58391CB7-5F09-4DE8-B5E7-DCB619BE8590-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2112\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/58391CB7-5F09-4DE8-B5E7-DCB619BE8590-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/58391CB7-5F09-4DE8-B5E7-DCB619BE8590-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/58391CB7-5F09-4DE8-B5E7-DCB619BE8590-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/58391CB7-5F09-4DE8-B5E7-DCB619BE8590-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/58391CB7-5F09-4DE8-B5E7-DCB619BE8590-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/58391CB7-5F09-4DE8-B5E7-DCB619BE8590.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT  V   bronze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2113\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/1802DF36-967C-4F95-B664-A482A087DA94-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2113\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/1802DF36-967C-4F95-B664-A482A087DA94-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/1802DF36-967C-4F95-B664-A482A087DA94-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/1802DF36-967C-4F95-B664-A482A087DA94-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/1802DF36-967C-4F95-B664-A482A087DA94-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/1802DF36-967C-4F95-B664-A482A087DA94-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/1802DF36-967C-4F95-B664-A482A087DA94.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT  VI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2114\"  src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/B521FA54-E6C1-48E8-AC94-94DA7BA43FA0-819x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"LAMENT is a series of six small bronze sculptures that are an emotional response to the Perfect Storm of environmental, economic, military, technological and psychological conditions that humanity is experiencing but is too overwhelmed to actually lament the likely demise of our world\/existence\/civilisation\/epoch.\" class=\"wp-image-2114\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/B521FA54-E6C1-48E8-AC94-94DA7BA43FA0-819x1024.jpeg 819w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/B521FA54-E6C1-48E8-AC94-94DA7BA43FA0-240x300.jpeg 240w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/B521FA54-E6C1-48E8-AC94-94DA7BA43FA0-768x960.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/B521FA54-E6C1-48E8-AC94-94DA7BA43FA0-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/B521FA54-E6C1-48E8-AC94-94DA7BA43FA0-624x780.jpeg 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/B521FA54-E6C1-48E8-AC94-94DA7BA43FA0.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LAMENT  VI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re paying attention then this is all very very sad.. To have to contemplate inevitable death in all of our futures can be confronting to some.. but to stare into the face of the coming calamitous tsunami of world ending conditions, that are very likely to destroy all of us.. human, animal and microbe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}