{"id":15320,"date":"2021-02-16T02:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T02:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15320"},"modified":"2021-02-16T02:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T02:27:34","slug":"void-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15320","title":{"rendered":"Void # 45&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidDiablo-Donald-Mcconnel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15353\" width=\"1000\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidDiablo-Donald-Mcconnel.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidDiablo-Donald-Mcconnel-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidDiablo-Donald-Mcconnel-768x475.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Court Painter, in an unprecedented gesture of cancellation, undertook the voiding of the face of an individual patron hereby identified as # 45. The reason given was the accumulation over the years of unpaid invoices for commissions undertaken and completed of individual # 45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unusual circumstance that all commissions bearing the face of #45 were still in studio storage, came about because of Court Painter&#8217;s strict rule to not release  paintings to patrons unless there was  a 10% chance of getting paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because #45&#8217;s commissions took up most of the basement, root cellar and broom closet of storage , Court Painter can only share a few of the Void Series completed at this time.  Be patient!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked for s statement Court Painter blurted-out &#8220;<strong>The chickens have come home to roost.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<em>for those who struggle with the expression here is an Urban Dictionary definition.<\/em>) This expression is similar to &#8220;what goes around, comes around&#8221; and basically means that the consequences of one&#8217;s evil actions catch up in a negative way. The idea that a wrongful curse comes back to the one who curses as a &#8220;bird returns to its nest&#8221; dates back&nbsp;to the days of antiquity. However, it wasn&#8217;t until the 19th Century that Robert Southey wrote that &#8220;curses are like a young chicken: they always come home to roost .&#8221; Since then, the idea of evil men creating returns to their own door has been encapsulated in this expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidunifier1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15346\" width=\"NaN\" height=\"NaN\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidunifier1.jpg 886w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidunifier1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidunifier1-768x473.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidTrumpsterfire-side-chat-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15345\" width=\"NaN\" height=\"NaN\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidTrumpsterfire-side-chat-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidTrumpsterfire-side-chat-copy-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidTrumpsterfire-side-chat-copy-768x581.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidtrump-hugging-flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15343\" width=\"NaN\" height=\"NaN\" 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https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voidever-the-salesman-3--768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voiddonald-enabler-mitch.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15330\" width=\"NaN\" height=\"NaN\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voiddonald-enabler-mitch.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voiddonald-enabler-mitch-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/voiddonald-enabler-mitch-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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The reason given was the accumulation over the years of unpaid invoices for commissions undertaken and completed of individual # 45. The unusual circumstance that all commissions bearing the face of #45 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Void # 45&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15320"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20336,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320\/revisions\/20336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}