{"id":1206,"date":"2012-08-22T20:39:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:32:25","slug":"jason-hackenwerth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/jason-hackenwerth\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Jason Hackenwerth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1207\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/jason-hackenwerth\/hackenwerth1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"716,472\" 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=\"hackenwerth1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1207\" title=\"hackenwerth1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth1.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These gigantic protozoa-like monsters are every balloon animal&#8217;s nightmare. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonhackenwerth.com\/#home\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Hackenwerth<\/a> creates these amazingly colorful and complex creatures out of ordinary balloons. There something unsettling about these magnified bacteria looming about in public spaces and chasing children around (but in the end there diminished size will betray this aggressive behavior). \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1211\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/jason-hackenwerth\/hackenwerth3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2295,800\" 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=\"hackenwerth3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth3-1024x356.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1211\" title=\"hackenwerth3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth3-1024x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth3-1024x356.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth3-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1210\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/jason-hackenwerth\/hackenwerth2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2197,800\" 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=\"hackenwerth2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth2-1024x372.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1210\" title=\"hackenwerth2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth2-1024x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth2-1024x372.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hackenwerth2-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These gigantic protozoa-like monsters are every balloon animal&#8217;s nightmare. Jason Hackenwerth creates these amazingly colorful and complex creatures out of ordinary balloons. There something unsettling about these magnified bacteria looming about in public spaces and chasing children around (but in the end there diminished size will betray this aggressive behavior). \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,105],"tags":[37,125,229,1871,228,1870],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-installation","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-balloon","tag-installation","tag-jason-hackenwerth","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-js","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5338,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/13\/daily-glimpse-with-jason-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":1206,"position":0},"title":"Daily Glimpse with Jason","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"April 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"DAY FOUR At 9:30 in the morning I was at the Joslyn Art Museum checking out this beautiful video installation about Marie Curie, while Jason was making some moons.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;daily glimpse&quot;","block_context":{"text":"daily glimpse","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/daily-glimpse\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"day4_mejason","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/day4_mejason-1024x384.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/day4_mejason-1024x384.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/day4_mejason-1024x384.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1801,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/luke-stephenson\/","url_meta":{"origin":1206,"position":1},"title":"Artist: Luke Stephenson","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"October 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Photographer Luke Stephenson snaps portraits for an unusual band of characters: from balloon animals to show birds to... clown eggs to... the participants of the World Beard and Mustache Championships... \u00a0and many more.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/artist\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/showbirds_lukestephenson.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/showbirds_lukestephenson.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/showbirds_lukestephenson.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/showbirds_lukestephenson.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2321,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/anne-lindberg-installation-time-lapse\/","url_meta":{"origin":1206,"position":2},"title":"Artist: Anne Lindberg &#8211; Installation Time Lapse","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"November 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bAj1AgzaHIM Check out this great time lapse video of the installation of Anne Lindberg's piece Drawn Pink\u00a0at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha. 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