{"id":705,"date":"2016-12-01T18:12:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2017-02-22T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:12:08","slug":"art-and-feeling-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/2016\/12\/art-and-feeling-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and feeling special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.atamayka.com\/category\/ceramic-wall-sculpture\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-706 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/093-100UF-TheJogger-Atamayka-01-585x585.jpg\" alt=\"100 Urban faces - by Atamayka - The Jogger\" width=\"585\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/093-100UF-TheJogger-Atamayka-01-585x585.jpg 585w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/093-100UF-TheJogger-Atamayka-01-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/093-100UF-TheJogger-Atamayka-01-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/093-100UF-TheJogger-Atamayka-01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/093-100UF-TheJogger-Atamayka-01-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/093-100UF-TheJogger-Atamayka-01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are tons of reasons why people buy art and they are mostly emotional.<br \/>\nAlthough 10% of collectors buy art as an investment *, <strong>most people buy art as a way to feel joy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent conversation, one of my most consequent supporters commented that, when she first saw my <a href=\"http:\/\/atamayka.com\/art\/100-urban-faces\/\" target=\"_blank\">100 Urban Faces<\/a> she thought they were so special. We see a few special objects in life but we don\u2018t necessarily buy all of them. So, I asked her why she bought them, to which she candidly responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>When you own something so original and special, you get the feeling that you are also special. It\u2018s like the quality of this piece transfers to you in a way.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you Sanne!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artbusiness.com\/osoquconsume.html\" target=\"_blank\">source: artbusiness.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>+ (Note: The 100 Urban Faces series of wall sculptures are available. For details, please contact me at <a href=\"mailto:art@atamayka.com\">art@atamayka.com<\/a>) +<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 24px; left: 24px;\">Merken<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 24px; left: 24px;\">Merken<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are tons of reasons why people buy art and they are mostly emotional. Although 10% of collectors buy art as an investment *, most people buy art as a way to feel joy. During a recent conversation, one of my most consequent supporters commented that, when she first saw my 100 Urban Faces she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-with-art","category-testimonial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}