{"id":3112,"date":"2025-10-08T19:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udbjorg.wordpress.com\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:32:20","slug":"wild-bunch-other-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"Wild Bunch & other stages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Wild Bunch & Other Scenes \u2014 Aquarelles and Pen Drawings (early 1980s)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Made in my Ringsted studio in the early \u201980s, these watercolours and pen drawings treat the studio as a stage. A rotating group of friends\u2014\u201cthe Wild Bunch\u201d<\/strong>\u2014improvised performances with the simplest of props: coloured nylon stockings<\/strong>. Stretched, knotted, veiled and slingshotted, the stockings turned bodies into elastic sculptures. The quick aquarelle washes catch the movement; the pen lines hold the punchline\u2014part cabaret, part study of form, disguise and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside the studio antics are surreal nature-conservation tableaux<\/strong>: curtains open onto savannahs, chessboards, columns and barricades; animals, targets and masks share the same scene. Humor flips into critique. The works ask what we protect, what we perform\u2014and who, exactly, is watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wild Bunch & Other Scenes \u2014 Aquarelles and Pen Drawings (early 1980s) Made in my Ringsted studio in the early \u201980s, these watercolours and pen drawings treat the studio as a stage. A rotating group of friends\u2014\u201cthe Wild Bunch\u201d\u2014improvised performances with the simplest of props: coloured nylon stockings. Stretched, knotted, veiled and slingshotted, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/watercolor2-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5618,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/5618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udbjorg.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}