{"id":53598,"date":"2012-03-23T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=53598"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:22:03","slug":"senex12-deborah-mack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12-deborah-mack\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition artist Deborah Mack &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53732\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/senex12-deborah-mack\/handbuilt-terra-cotta-detail-of-installation-piece-by-deb-mack-12-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53732\" class=\"wp-image-53732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Mack2.jpg\" alt=\"Handbuilt terracotta detail of installation piece by Deb Mack '12.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Mack2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Mack2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Mack2-144x107.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Mack2-134x100.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handbuilt terracotta detail of installation piece by Deb Mack &#8217;12.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mack of Tarrytown, N.Y., makes terra cotta sculptures that evolved from an interest in representing natural forms.<\/p>\n<p>Now Mack sculpts plant leaves as she explores her long concern about humanity&#8217;s environmental impacts. Her sculptures focus on details and, she says, juxtapose &#8220;leaf forms with glass fragments to reflect the delicate and unbalanced relationship between humans and nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12\/\">Return to the 2012 Senior Exhibition main story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mack of Tarrytown, N.Y., makes terra cotta sculptures that evolved from an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53598"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119074,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53598\/revisions\/119074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}