{"id":4059,"date":"2009-01-17T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2009-01-17T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T03:55:14","slug":"prada-marfa-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/prada-marfa-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"PRADA, Marfa Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=prada{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}20marfa&#038;w=all&#038;s=int\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/prada-marfa-320x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PRADA Marfa TX\" width=\"320\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4060\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nkerns\/2226752810\/\">Noel Kerns<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This little gem is a little further down the desolate highway 90 from where we&#8217;re living in the middle of nowhere, TX&#8230; amazing!<\/p>\n<p>The work was located on the outskirts of Valentine, Texas near Marfa in 2005 on desolate ranching land with no other visible trace of civilization. The artists Elmgreen and Dragset states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> &#8220;As one drives toward the artwork it will appear to be a large minimalist sculpture, as one gets closer it will look like a luxury boutique where a display of Fall 2005 high-heel Prada shoes and bags will be seen through the store front windows&#8230; [It]blends into the exciting historical structures of the area in which it will be placed&#8230; As we purposefully will not preserve Prada Marfa, it will eventually become a ruin so that even in a future decayed state it will remain relevant to the time in which it was made&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perfect. There are so many beautiful ruins around here and so many to explore. Marathon Texas, where we&#8217;re living right now, is such an amazing place to live. Its so disconnected from the rest of the world, anything goes out here. I&#8217;m so keen to explore Marfa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Noel Kerns This little gem is a little further down the desolate highway 90 from where we&#8217;re living in the middle of nowhere, TX&#8230; amazing! The work was located on the outskirts of Valentine, Texas near Marfa in 2005 on desolate ranching land with no other visible trace of civilization. The artists Elmgreen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}