{"id":5726,"date":"2018-01-25T23:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2018-01-25T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:26:45","slug":"stark-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5726","title":{"rendered":"Stark Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still reeling from stark email messages that included hurtful words like &#8216;remove us&#8217; and &#8216;refrain from&#8217;, Court Painter retreated into his studio and slammed the door. Speaking to him through a crack in the door his Press Attache A Hardon MacKay was assured he was all right and &#8220;just wanted to work on new word paintings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-remove-refrain-from.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-remove-refrain-from.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-remove-refrain-from-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-remove-refrain-from-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5735 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-hurtful-words-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-hurtful-words-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-hurtful-words-2-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-hurtful-words-2-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5729 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Stark-message.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Stark-message.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Stark-message-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Stark-message-768x590.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the light of this studio drama Press Attache A Hardon MacKay issued a short message<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When social media brings messages of rejection,\u00a0repudiation<span class=\"syn\">, rebuff, spurning, abandonment, forsaking, desertion, shutting out, exclusion, shunning, cold-shouldering, ostracizing, \u00a0blackballing, blacklisting, avoidance, ignoring, snubbing and cutting dead&#8230;.Court Painter\u00a0<\/span>shows us that his retreat into making art \u00a0provides the inner resilience to rebuff \u00a0the bruises brought on by having a social media address that brings stark messages of rejection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5731 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-25-at-1.14.54-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-25-at-1.14.54-PM.png 566w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-25-at-1.14.54-PM-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 85vw, 566px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5730 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-25-at-1.24.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-25-at-1.24.01-PM.png 567w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-25-at-1.24.01-PM-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 85vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"synGroup\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"filters-0\" class=\"filters\">\n<div class=\"relevancy-block\">\n<div class=\"relevancy-list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still reeling from stark email messages that included hurtful words like &#8216;remove us&#8217; and &#8216;refrain from&#8217;, Court Painter retreated into his studio and slammed the door. Speaking to him through a crack in the door his Press Attache A Hardon MacKay was assured he was all right and &#8220;just wanted to work on new word &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stark Messages&#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-5726","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\/5726","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=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}