{"id":4649,"date":"2015-11-13T13:26:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craighavens.com\/?page_id=4649"},"modified":"2025-03-28T08:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:54:38","slug":"games-people-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/games-people-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Games People Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This\u00a0work is concerned\u00a0with examining the act of play not only in the context of blissful expressive child&#8217;s play but equally so in the realm of\u00a0interpersonal relations and geopolitics. Large-scale pigment prints\u00a0depict rolled-steel\u00a0Soviet-era playground structures abandoned in the wooded parklands\u00a0surrounding the United States Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Image titles\u00a0are derived from the list of\u00a0traditional european games depicted in\u00a0<em>Children&#8217;s Games<\/em>\u00a0by Pieter Bruegel the Elder <span style=\"line-height: 20.8px; text-align: justify;\">(1560),\u00a0<\/span>equating the playground games of children with\u00a0the vagaries of statecraft.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6525\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel2_1200px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel2_1200px.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel2_1200px-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel2_1200px-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel2_1200px-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><em>Game No. 1<\/em>,\u00a0Sofia,\u00a0Bulgaria. Photographic Pigment Print\u00a0on Cotton Rag Paper, Edition\u00a0of 5\u00a0\/ AP 1 \/ EP 1.\u00a0110 x 148 centimeters<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6524\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel1_1200px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel1_1200px.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel1_1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel1_1200px-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel1_1200px-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><em>Game\u00a0No. 2\u00a0(Wearing Masks)<\/em>, Sofia,\u00a0Bulgaria. Photographic Pigment Print\u00a0on Cotton Rag Paper, Edition\u00a0of 5\u00a0\/ AP 1 \/ EP 1.\u00a0110 x 148 centimeters<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6526\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel3_1200px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel3_1200px.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel3_1200px-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel3_1200px-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel3_1200px-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><em>Game No. 3 (Barrel Riding)<\/em>, Sofia,\u00a0Bulgaria. Photographic Pigment Print\u00a0on Cotton Rag Paper, Edition\u00a0of 5\u00a0\/ AP 1 \/ EP 1.\u00a0110 x 148 centimeters<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6527\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel4_1200px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel4_1200px.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel4_1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel4_1200px-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/craighavens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HAVENS_Spiel4_1200px-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><em>Game No. 4\u00a0(Fence Sitting)<\/em>, Sofia,\u00a0Bulgaria. Photographic Pigment Print\u00a0on Cotton Rag Paper, Edition\u00a0of 5\u00a0\/ AP 1 \/ EP 1.\u00a0110 x 148 centimeters<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0work is concerned\u00a0with examining the act of play not only in the context of blissful expressive child&#8217;s play but equally so in the realm of\u00a0interpersonal relations and geopolitics. Large-scale pigment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10002,"href":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4649\/revisions\/10002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighavens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}