{"id":11532,"date":"2012-06-01T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=11532"},"modified":"2012-09-19T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:09:00","slug":"jason-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=11532","title":{"rendered":"Jason Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many people, large parts of where they live have become invisible \u2013 expanses to be negotiated between destinations, but not looked at. As a photographer and artist, my work is largely concentrated on this idea. My work looks at the transitional nature of our built environment with a focus on the nominal subjects in our environment \u2013 the common places that we move through, but tend not to notice, on our way to somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Having grown up in a small town in Northern Ontario, these images recall memories of my youth, when the ideology of the landscape and built environment was not always based on something new, well-designed, or planned.\u00a0 These images represent an escape, of sorts, from where I am today, and a reconnection with a landscape and environment that I left behind both in matter and mind.<\/p>\n<p>My works\u00a0attempt to uncover the ways in which our relationships to our environments define who we are both individually, and as a society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/01_JasonBrown_SouvenirShop2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11534\" title=\"01_JasonBrown_SouvenirShop2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/01_JasonBrown_SouvenirShop2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Jason Brown<br \/>\nSouvenir Shop, Cannes-de-Roches, QC, 2011<br \/>\nPigment Ink on Paper<br \/>\n16 x 21 inches<br \/>\nframed $500<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/02_JasonBrown_CanadaRocks2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11535\" title=\"02_JasonBrown_CanadaRocks2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/02_JasonBrown_CanadaRocks2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Jason Brown<br \/>\nCanada Rocks, Middleton, PEI, 2011<br \/>\nPigment Ink on Paper<br \/>\n16 x 21 inches<br \/>\nframed $500<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/03_JasonBrown_Homes2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11536\" title=\"03_JasonBrown_Homes2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/03_JasonBrown_Homes2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Jason Brown<br \/>\nFour Square and Dutch Colonial Homes, Little Anse, NS, 2011<br \/>\nPigment Ink on Paper<br \/>\n16 x 21 inches<br \/>\nframed $500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JASON BROWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My work looks at the transitional nature of our built environment with a focus on the nominal subjects in our environment \u2013 the common places that we move through, but tend not to notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=11532\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11532"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14739,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions\/14739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}