{"id":5208,"date":"2013-04-04T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:25:25","slug":"ryan-w-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/ryan-w-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Ryan W. Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sleepofreason-ryanwkelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5210\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/ryan-w-kelly\/sleepofreason-ryanwkelly\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sleepofreason-ryanwkelly.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,399\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sleepofreason-ryanwkelly\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sleepofreason-ryanwkelly-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sleepofreason-ryanwkelly.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5210\" alt=\"sleepofreason-ryanwkelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sleepofreason-ryanwkelly.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sleepofreason-ryanwkelly.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sleepofreason-ryanwkelly-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These stills from various video works and performances are strikingly similar to the art films of\u00a0Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s. <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilsonkelly.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan W. Kelly<\/a>\u00a0has a real talent for constructing a scene of fantasy with his detailed, pictorial scenery and impressively sculpted props.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sleep of Reason\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fyG1fegMxkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/speaksoftly-ryanwkelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5211\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/ryan-w-kelly\/speaksoftly-ryanwkelly\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/speaksoftly-ryanwkelly.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,399\" 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=\"speaksoftly-ryanwkelly\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/speaksoftly-ryanwkelly-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/speaksoftly-ryanwkelly.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5211\" alt=\"speaksoftly-ryanwkelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/speaksoftly-ryanwkelly.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/speaksoftly-ryanwkelly.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/speaksoftly-ryanwkelly-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mazeppa-ryanwkelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5209\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/ryan-w-kelly\/mazeppa-ryanwkelly\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mazeppa-ryanwkelly.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,335\" 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=\"mazeppa-ryanwkelly\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mazeppa-ryanwkelly-300x167.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mazeppa-ryanwkelly.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5209\" alt=\"mazeppa-ryanwkelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mazeppa-ryanwkelly.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mazeppa-ryanwkelly.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mazeppa-ryanwkelly-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These stills from various video works and performances are strikingly similar to the art films of\u00a0Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s. Ryan W. Kelly\u00a0has a real talent for constructing a scene of fantasy with his detailed, pictorial scenery and impressively sculpted props.<\/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":[16,281],"tags":[895,125,896,149,894],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-mixed-media","tag-arta","tag-artist-2","tag-georges-melies","tag-performance","tag-ryan-w-kelly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1m0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3568,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/ryan-stewart-nault\/","url_meta":{"origin":5208,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Ryan Stewart Nault","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I really enjoy these paintings from Ryan Stewart Nault. 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