{"id":38,"date":"2025-09-01T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/?p=38"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:24:08","slug":"the-afro-futurist-room-object-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/2025\/09\/01\/the-afro-futurist-room-object-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afro-futurist Room Object (Shine)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This piece is <em>Shine<\/em> by William Cole. At first glance, it may look like just a bunch of polished black heels in a pile. However, these heels are strategically placed. Cole based the design on Cameroonian masks. The soles of the shoes are used to emphasize facial features such as the mouth and eyes.  It took me some time to realize that the soles were placed in a way that created a face and I wanted to learn more about the story behind it&#8217;s creation. Although the shoes themselves are not from Africa and instead from America, Cole wants to emphasize that the original source of the materials are not what is important but that this piece of art pays homage to African culture through the style of the mask and how it looks like it\u2019s from a different time frame based on its cultural based design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece is Shine by William Cole. At first glance, it may look like just a bunch of polished black heels in a pile. However, these heels are strategically placed. Cole based the design on Cameroonian masks. The soles of the shoes are used to emphasize facial features such as the mouth and eyes. It&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/2025\/09\/01\/the-afro-futurist-room-object-shine\/#more-38\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}