{"id":53608,"date":"2012-03-23T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=53608"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:22:05","slug":"senex12-emma-stevenssmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12-emma-stevenssmith\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition artist Emma Stevens-Smith &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53739\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/senex12-emma-stevenssmith\/zoe-by-emma-stevens-12-india-ink-on-paper\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53739\" class=\"wp-image-53739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Stevens1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Zoe&quot; by Emma Stevens-Smith '12, india ink on paper.\" width=\"497\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Stevens1.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Stevens1-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Stevens1-414x500.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Zoe&#8221; by Emma Stevens-Smith &#8217;12, india ink on paper.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stevens-Smith of San Francisco exploits an intentional loss of the comfort she finds in control.<\/p>\n<p>Working from photographs, she works fluidly to create portraits from &#8220;unpredictable rivulets&#8221; of ink on colored paper. Using ink, she says, enabled her &#8220;to capture the essence of an individual in broad strokes and unforeseen lines.&#8221; She adds, &#8220;I force myself to work quickly &#8212; I don\u2019t want to fixate and I&#8217;m eager to see the final product.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12\/\">Return to the main 2012 Senior Exhibition story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevens-Smith of San Francisco exploits an intentional loss of the comfort she&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-53608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608","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=53608"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119081,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions\/119081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}