{"id":1502,"date":"2012-09-20T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:25:29","slug":"artist-todd-mclellan-inspires-fong-qi-wei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/artist-todd-mclellan-inspires-fong-qi-wei\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists: Todd McLellan inspires Fong Qi Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artist Todd McLellan<\/a> tediously disassembles various machines; keeping every piece he arranges each component in an orderly fashion, giving the viewer a chance to really examine the makeup of these ordinary objects. \u00a0Equally tedious, photographer\u00a0Fong Qi Wei<\/a> took inspiration from Todd in her series Exploded Flowers<\/a><\/em>, where she takes apart various species of flowers to expose the complex nature of their structures. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Artist Todd McLellan tediously disassembles various machines; keeping every piece he arranges each component in an orderly fashion, giving the viewer a chance to really examine the makeup of these ordinary objects. \u00a0Equally tedious, photographer\u00a0Fong Qi Wei took inspiration from Todd in her series Exploded Flowers, where she takes apart various species of flowers to […]<\/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":[16,199],"tags":[37,285,106,283,1876,282,284],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-photography","tag-art","tag-camera","tag-flowers","tag-fong-qi-wei","tag-photography","tag-todd-mclellan","tag-typewriter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-oe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7691,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/swell-things-no-12\/","url_meta":{"origin":1502,"position":0},"title":"Swell Things No. 12","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"February 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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