{"id":52084,"date":"2014-09-28T00:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T07:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=52084"},"modified":"2014-09-28T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T07:09:44","slug":"the-cornershop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52084","title":{"rendered":"The Cornershop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThink back to the days of childhood and how much fun it was to role-play the chore of shopping for groceries. My girls can spend hours playing the game of &#8220;grocery shop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For artist <a href=\"http:\/\/sewyoursoul.co.uk\/\">Lucy Sparrow<\/a>, it\u2019s not just child\u2019s play. Her latest project, the Cornershop, is a temporary installation featuring a traditional neighborhood grocery store whose inventory is made completely of wool and felt. Lucy was inspired by an old, abandoned launderette in London and got to work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lucy-sparrow2-e1410926277426.jpg\" alt=\"lucy sparrow2\" width=\"359\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It certainly does seem as though\u00a0the former<em>\u00a0Princess<\/em> Dry Cleaning shop should be turned into a fabulous piece of art.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lucy-sparrow1-e1410926344416.jpg\" alt=\"lucy sparrow1\" width=\"359\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lucy spent seven months stitching close to 4,000 replicas of everyday grocery items and then stocking them on the\u00a0shelves of her Cornershop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52087\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lucy-sparrow-e1410926487907.jpg\" alt=\"lucy sparrow\" width=\"360\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, it would be too fun to peruse the aisles of Lucy&#8217;s Cornershop! If only London was in my future travel plans. If you happen to be in London this month or in Brighton in October, do tell us all about it! \ud83d\ude42\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think back to the days of childhood and how much fun it was to role-play the chore of shopping for groceries. My girls can spend hours playing the game of &#8220;grocery shop.&#8221; For artist Lucy Sparrow, it\u2019s not just child\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}