{"id":4707,"date":"2013-12-13T12:09:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/?p=4707"},"modified":"2013-12-13T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:09:31","slug":"choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/choice-4707\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This article appeared in the December 11-17, 2013 issue of SF Weekly. Kate Conger, Editor. Reprinted with an additional image.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4712\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4712\" data-attachment-id=\"4712\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/choice-4707\/stephanie_eley-87114-380033\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stephanie_eley-87114.380033.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"640,474\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"stephanie_eley-87114.380033\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;stephanie_eley&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stephanie_eley-87114.380033-300x222.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stephanie_eley-87114.380033.jpeg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4712 \" alt=\"stephanie_eley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stephanie_eley-87114.380033.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stephanie_eley-87114.380033.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stephanie_eley-87114.380033-300x222.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Eley, &#8220;Brown Paper Bag&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Catherine Clark wrote, &#8220;I wanted to choose strong artists\u2014those pushing through clich\u00e9s\u2014not just strong work.&#8221; Artists like Cindy Shih, raised &#8220;to be self sufficient in order to find a sugar daddy, and to be a free-thinking woman so I could successfully assimilate to society.&#8221; Shih wrote that, &#8220;I took a mallet to the illusion, shattered my world, and I became a painter. I painted because it gave me a voice I never knew I had before, I painted because I no longer wanted to be silent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4708\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/choice_article.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4708\" data-attachment-id=\"4708\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/choice-4707\/choice_article\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/choice_article.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1008,608\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon MX920 series Network&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1386963286&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"choice_article\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Click for larger image&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/choice_article-300x180.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/choice_article.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-4708  \" alt=\"Click for larger image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/choice_article.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/choice_article.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/choice_article-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for larger image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Michael Singman-Aste<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.PostdiluvianPhoto.com\">Postdiluvian Photo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article appeared in the December 11-17, 2013 issue of SF Weekly. Kate Conger, Editor. Reprinted with an additional image. Catherine Clark wrote, &#8220;I wanted to choose strong artists\u2014those pushing through clich\u00e9s\u2014not just strong work.&#8221; Artists like Cindy Shih, raised &#8220;to be self sufficient in order to find a sugar daddy, and to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[907,904,923,643,911,897,895,913,925,929,928,902,908,926,909,931,901,903,910,922,919,899,917,898,914,906,920,921,927,916,896,77,459,918,905,915,924,912,930,900],"class_list":["post-4707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","tag-alexa-garbarino","tag-amanda-dandeneau","tag-amy-puccio","tag-arc-gallery","tag-bernadette-howard","tag-california-womens-caucus-for-art","tag-catherine-clark","tag-christine-knox","tag-cindy-shih","tag-deborah-wheeler","tag-diana-unterspan","tag-francine-dailey","tag-guerrilla-girls-on-tour","tag-jackie-skrzynski","tag-jennifer-hawk","tag-jennifer-zona","tag-jessica-burke","tag-jessica-damsky","tag-jo-anna-hickman","tag-judi-parks","tag-juliet-mevi","tag-jung-ran-bae","tag-katrina-majkut","tag-lennell-allen","tag-liza-kabarge","tag-meryl-feigenberg","tag-miwako-nishizawa","tag-priscilla-otani","tag-priscilla-smith","tag-rahshia","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-san-francisco","tag-sf-weekly","tag-stela-mandel","tag-stephanie-eley","tag-suzanne-lacke","tag-tamra-seal","tag-tonia-klein","tag-vera-ximenes","tag-yvette-brown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sPxQO-choice","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}