{"id":566,"date":"2024-09-20T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2024-09-20T19:35:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:35:29","slug":"the-god-bacchus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/the-god-bacchus\/","title":{"rendered":"The God Bacchus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So this series came out of me trying to get a picture of what the throne of Bacchus, the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, would look like. Here are just some of the many attempts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These were pretty but they didn’t really satisfy what I was looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was the closest of the abstract ones to what I was going for, but still not quite.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These came out a little too abstract. Again, pretty, but not what I was going for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These were edging closer, at least we were getting like Roman architecture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then I got this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that made me think, huh… what if I do Bacchus himself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ACK! Too… vampire. Or Trent Reznor. Just, no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why does a god have a belly button?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These were too Adonis \/ Disney prince. I thought Bacchus was supposed to be like… jolly and fat? Like Santa Clause? So I tried to go that route. It didn’t end well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This one actually came out OK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These were 3 of the best ones. The last one is pretty respectable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing these led in to a whole other host of experiments, which I will put up in different posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this series came out of me trying to get a picture of what the throne of Bacchus, the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, would look like. Here are just some of the many attempts: These were pretty but they didn’t really satisfy what I was looking for. These came out a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gutenify_countdown_timer_type":"fixed","_gutenify_countdown_timer_evergreen_hours":24,"_gutenify_countdown_timer_evergreen_minutes":0,"_gutenify_countdown_timer_date":"","_gutenify_countdown_timer_timezone":"US\/Eastern","_gutenify_countdown_timer_end_action":"none","_gutenify_countdown_timer_hide_selector":"","_gutenify_countdown_timer_redirect_url":"","site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiart.workisboring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}