{"id":3556,"date":"2013-01-09T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:06","slug":"hollis-brown-thornton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/hollis-brown-thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Hollis Brown Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hollis Brown Thornton<\/a> plays with memory and time by fragmenting nostalgic imagery. Hollis uses acrylic paints, markers and photo transfer to control the amount of visibility and degradation within each image, playing with how pop culture, world events and outdated technologies languish as time moves forward and memory fades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hollis Brown Thornton plays with memory and time by fragmenting nostalgic imagery. Hollis uses acrylic paints, markers and photo transfer to control the amount of visibility and degradation within each image, playing with how pop culture, world events and outdated technologies languish as time moves forward and memory fades.\u00a0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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,155,405],"tags":[37,125,1874,579,1868,24],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-drawing","category-printmaking","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-drawing","tag-hollis-brown-thornton","tag-painting","tag-print"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-Vm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5053,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/edie-fake\/","url_meta":{"origin":3556,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Edie Fake","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"March 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Memory Palaces\u00a0from Edie Fake\u00a0is a series of pen, ink, and gouache drawings re-envisioning Chicago's queer history (both real and unreal). 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