{"id":8432,"date":"2014-08-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:03:49","slug":"artist-andrea-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/artist-andrea-wan\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Andrea Wan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TazmainianTiger-AndreaWan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When I was a kid, my dreams were to grow up and become a zoologist. I loved animals; I would go to the library weekly to gather books and more books about all variety of animals. I was also a member of the World Wildlife Fund. Anyway, one creature that really fascinated me was the Tasmanian Tiger, for the main reason that it had become extinct so recently and in a time when humans could have prevented it.<\/p>\n

Exploding Heads<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is a series by Andrea Wan<\/a>, where she beautifully illustrates various extinct creatures exploding from the porcelain faces of young men and women. It’s rather odd, but lovely and allows my mind to travel back in time for a bit.\u00a0\"Dodo-AndreaWan\"<\/a> \"Moa-AndreaWan\"<\/a> \"Quagga-AndreaWan\"<\/a> \"Mammoth-AndreaWan\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, my dreams were to grow up and become a zoologist. I loved animals; I would go to the library weekly to gather books and more books about all variety of animals. I was also a member of the World Wildlife Fund. Anyway, one creature that really fascinated me was the […]<\/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":[16,146],"tags":[1548,37,125,1872],"class_list":["post-8432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-illustration","tag-andrea-wan","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-illustration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-2c0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5198,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/laura-bifano\/","url_meta":{"origin":8432,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Laura Bifano","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"April 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Taking inspiration from a love for nature and classic video games, Laura Bifano paints polygonal animals out in the wild in the series Menagerie. 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