{"id":2860,"date":"2012-12-05T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:52","slug":"apak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/apak\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists: APAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yetidream_apak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2864\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/apak\/yetidream_apak\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yetidream_apak.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"568,800\" 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=\"yetidream_apak\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yetidream_apak-213x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yetidream_apak.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2864\" title=\"yetidream_apak\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yetidream_apak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yetidream_apak.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/yetidream_apak-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to the wonderful world of <a href=\"http:\/\/apakstudio.com\/apak\/\" target=\"_blank\">APAK Studio<\/a>, a creative collaboration between husband and wife,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apakstudio.com\/aaron\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayuyu.net\" target=\"_blank\">Ayumi Piland<\/a>. Using gouache and acrylic, this duo paints a lush utopia filled with curious little creatures exploring the magic and mystery of life and love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fumiotrainsjosephleads_apak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2862\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/apak\/fumiotrainsjosephleads_apak\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fumiotrainsjosephleads_apak.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1595,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fumiotrainsjosephleads_apak-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fumiotrainsjosephleads_apak-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fumiotrainsjosephleads_apak.jpg 1595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/danceofwonderuniversetravelers_apak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/apak\/danceofwonderuniversetravelers_apak\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/danceofwonderuniversetravelers_apak.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1474,797\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/danceofwonderuniversetravelers_apak-1024x553.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/danceofwonderuniversetravelers_apak-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/danceofwonderuniversetravelers_apak.jpg 1474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/spacegardenoffering500_apak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2863\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/apak\/spacegardenoffering500_apak\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/spacegardenoffering500_apak.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1262,800\" 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Using gouache and acrylic, this duo paints a lush utopia filled with curious little creatures exploring the magic and mystery of life and love.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[472,470,37,125,473,1868],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-aaron-piland","tag-apak","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-ayumi-piland","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2Btis-apak","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2973,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/betsy-walton\/","url_meta":{"origin":2860,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Betsy Walton","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Taking inspiration from American folk art, Byzantine icon paintings and geometric abstractions, Betsy Walton, brings together her talents of drawing and painting to create pieces teetering between mystery and mundane. Betsy has collaborated with several talented artists, such as\u00a0APAK and Yellena James.\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\/12\/whitehouseblackhouse_betsywalton.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/whitehouseblackhouse_betsywalton.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/whitehouseblackhouse_betsywalton.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/whitehouseblackhouse_betsywalton.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1550,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/frederique-morrel\/","url_meta":{"origin":2860,"position":1},"title":"Artist: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Morrel","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"September 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This eccentric couple, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Morrel and Aaron Levin (with their three children and two Jack Russels), have created the most unusual collection of taxidermic creatures. 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