{"id":1615,"date":"2015-11-06T23:07:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T23:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2015-11-06T23:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T23:07:55","slug":"the-milky-way-above-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/the-milky-way-above-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The milky way above us"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and the water around us! Last March I went to Phuket for a dive in Koh Phi Phi. It was the first time I\u00a0saw such lush and gigantic\u00a0coral. Scuba diving is the closest I will ever get to knowing what it is like in space- the immensity of black\u00a0water, the altered laws of movement\u00a0and the disquieting notion that the\u00a0body\u00a0is dependent on a few devices that seem advanced and crude at the same time.
\n\"Christie<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The colours, textures and shimmer of the coral and animals were so striking I wanted to use them as inspiration for a Replicators <\/a>piece.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Christie<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Christie<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Christie<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Just before we ascended\u00a0we got caught in the middle of a bait ball. It was pretty trippy. The fish were silver\u00a0as they approached vanishing point\u00a0but up close they had red stripes and googly eyes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Christie<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

-Christie<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and the water around us! Last March I went to Phuket for a dive in Koh Phi Phi. It was the first time I saw such lush and gigantic coral. Scuba diving is the closest I will ever get to knowing what it is like in space- the immensity of black water, the altered laws of movement and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colour-pieces","category-ink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}