The rising quadrant has the most pennies so far, and I think that’s a good way to lean. A penny placed there usually means the day turned negatives into positives.<\/p>\n
The center point and below it on the midline holds solidity, foundations; the upper\u00a0midline represents spirit. The points along the midline center are about balance.<\/p>\n
While creating\u00a0the latest sequence of placements, I began to think of this sculpture as a really organic form rather than something with an architecture.<\/p>\n Before I place each penny, I look at the blog post for that day and reflect on how I felt. Then I scan the surface of the sculpture, and the right place usually opens up to my eyes like a blossom.<\/p>\n Pennies pile atop other pennies with similar significance. But it’s increasingly rare that I remember\u00a0the significance of any specific\u00a0pennies.<\/p>\n It stuns me how much is forgotten\u00a0in just a few weeks. The details are no longer distinct. Each day blends with the next like molten copper.<\/p>\n How beautiful that is.<\/p>\n If I live to be 100, I hope that river of copper still runs smoothly through my mind.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 2000 because it, like today, is a centennial. Made up of a hundred very fine threads.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My sculpture is leaning a little to the left. As I pile the pennies onto the sculpture, I position them with meaning. Quadrants: left lower is negative, right upper is positive, right lower is falling, left upper is rising. The rising quadrant has the most pennies so far, and I think that’s a good way … read more Day 100: Copper river<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84,35,33,361,326,360],"class_list":["post-5881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pennies","tag-84","tag-art","tag-copper","tag-creation","tag-scuplture","tag-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Day](\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TL-5176.jpg\")
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