{"id":530,"date":"2012-07-19T20:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:36:19","slug":"montgomery-perry-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/19\/montgomery-perry-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Montgomery Perry Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montgomery Perry Smith<\/a> collects everyday objects like glass bowls, incense sticks, fake flowers (to name a few) and transforms them into something more foreign then common. Symmetry and repetition compose circular forms that lure your gaze with familiarity, yet leaning inward could arouse feelings of bewilderment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Montgomery Perry Smith collects everyday objects like glass bowls, incense sticks, fake flowers (to name a few) and transforms them into something more foreign then common. Symmetry and repetition compose circular forms that lure your gaze with familiarity, yet leaning inward could arouse feelings of bewilderment.\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":[16,406],"tags":[37,104,107,106,103,1871,1870,23],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-fiber-art","tag-art","tag-circle","tag-felt","tag-flowers","tag-found-objects","tag-installation","tag-sculpture","tag-wood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-8y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1502,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/artist-todd-mclellan-inspires-fong-qi-wei\/","url_meta":{"origin":530,"position":0},"title":"Artists: Todd McLellan inspires Fong Qi Wei","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"September 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "art"","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\/09\/mclellantypewriter_phone.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mclellantypewriter_phone.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mclellantypewriter_phone.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mclellantypewriter_phone.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2088,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/sonia-rentsch\/","url_meta":{"origin":530,"position":1},"title":"Artist: Sonia Rentsch","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"October 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Still life stylist and art director Sonia Rentsch\u00a0stages her objects perfectly to create clever portraits for her clients. 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