{"id":7651,"date":"2014-02-12T01:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T06:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:10:33","slug":"artist-kennedy-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/artist-kennedy-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Kennedy James"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here are a few pieces from a collection by Kennedy James<\/a> called Serial Bondage. <\/em>Each chair is tied-up with yarn in the ancient art of Japanese Shibari (rope bondage). There is something delightful and playful about these delicate miniature chairs harnessed with brightly colored ropes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here are a few pieces from a collection by Kennedy James called Serial Bondage. Each chair is tied-up with yarn in the ancient art of Japanese Shibari (rope bondage). There is something delightful and playful about these delicate miniature chairs harnessed with brightly colored ropes.\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":[16,281],"tags":[37,125,1383,1878,1870,1384],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-mixed-media","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-kennedy-james","tag-mixed-media","tag-sculpture","tag-serial-bondage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1Zp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8190,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/artist-megan-herwig\/","url_meta":{"origin":7651,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Megan Herwig","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"July 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Megan Herwig is a graduate of the Montserrat College of Art, in addition to receiving a Master's in Fine Art from the School of the Museum Fine Arts\u00a0in Boston. 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